Word: tuneful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whistled a much different tune from that of last Spring. In May and June, on his raceabout tour of Northern Italy, he hurled bombast from stumps and palace balconies, defied France, flayed other governments (especially Great Britain's) for clumsy mishandling of unemployment. But now, in October, his sap having cooled, II Duce spoke at calm, significant length...
...days not so very long ago the whole educational system from bottom to top was based on the assumption of individual similarity. . . The assumption was that the classical languages, mathematics, and a few other studies varying more or less from college to college would tune up the mind, so to speak, to concert pitch...
...donor of the Houses, upon a dais? Do the students also wish to be elevated to that dais, or do they admit that these people are slightly more important than they? If not, they had better begin at once to rear-range their ideas, because they are out of tune with the rest of mankind. I wonder if the editorialist realizes that in the English institutions after which these beautiful houses are modelled, it is the custom for the dais to be occupied by the men in authority? Or, by any chance, does our complainant feel embarrassed...
...became frantically moved, however, caution returned to Bavaria's Mussolini. Perhaps he recalled spending a year in jail after his attempted 1923 Putsch. Changing tune, he concluded: "Ours is a revolutionary party but what we propose to capture is the German soul! We do not need to make a Putsch to gain control of the government. That is not necessary! Control will come to us in a legal manner. That, my friends, is what our enemies fear...
...Yale, which have claim on him as a son, mix it up today in the Yale Bowl. "Time Out" is sure both teams will strive the harder, knowing that their pal Rudy is up there, somewhere, in the stands, singing, softly to himself the Maine' Stein Song to the tune of Boola, Boola, or vice versa .... Yale, incidentally, seems to have solved the problem that has bothered some of its teams in years which have not yet faded far into memory. Reports, perhaps not wholly true, have explained the ineffectiveness of the Elis in their objective games on account...