Word: tuneful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Words for the Baccalaureate Bymn should be set to some familiar tune such as "Fair Harvard," "Onward Christian Soldiers," or "Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand...
...weeks' run, are a curious conglomeration with good ideas weakened by being too drawn out. The first is a novelty orchestra. Then follows an admirable feature, the Quartet from "Rigoletto", with Gigli and Marion Talley. Krazy Kat, is the next. The last short has a catchy tune spoiled by a poor story and overacting...
...Walter I. Joyce of the Veterans of Foreign Wars dumped before the Committee a great bale of documents which he said contained 6,020.000 signatures petitioning the anthem's official adoption. Said he: "I stood on San Juan Hill in '98 and heard four bands play that tune. All around me in pup tents men were lying sick with fever but when they heard that glorious old tune, every last man somehow got to his feet...
...James E. Hancock, president-general of the Society of the War of 1812, denied that the tune was difficult. Said he: "Even the mocking birds in Florida learned the song from the buglers when soldiers were encamped there en route to Cuba in the Spanish...
Representative Emanuel Celler of New York approved adoption of the song, but insisted that the name of James Stafford Smith be stricken out as the author of the music. The tune, he claimed, was taken directly from that of an old English barroom ballad sung by jovial members of London's Anacreon Club. The first verse of that song...