Word: tuneful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Schmeling, 32-year-old German heavyweight contender: a technical knockout over obscure 24-year-old Steve Dudas of Edgewater, N. J., after flooring him seven times; in the fifth round of a scheduled 15-round boxing match, his last tune-up before meeting Joe Louis for the world championship in June; before 23,000 Nazi fight fans: at Hamburg, Germany...
Ninety-eight per cent of the tunes published by Tin Pan Alley (Manhattan's sheet-music publishing industry) are in 2/4 or 4/4 time. But when, once in a blue moon, a waltz (3/4 time) catches on, it usually leaves the best selling of its rivals trailing by laps. Most sensational Spanish-style waltz hit was a tune by Tunesmith Mabel Wayne called Ramona (1928). One of the biggest sellers in Tin Pan Alley's history, Ramona ended by piling up sales of two million copies...
...December a plump, middle-aged Mexican song writer, Maria Grever, lay bedridden with a serious face infection. Hypodermic injections by an attending physician made her feel as if her bed were tipping. Forced to meditate on this seasick idea, Tunesmith Grever evolved the title Ti-Pi-Tin, composed a tune to go with...
Yardlings chalked up an overwhelming defeat over the Huntington School nine to the tune of 14-1 Saturday, Charley Brackett, Crimson hurler spread out the five hits that Huntington made so well that the losers were able to score but once...
...important match yesterday afternoon in the Union Common Room the Harvard A chess team defeated N. Y. U. to the tune of three...