Word: tuneful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occupational disease of British Prime Ministers was Britain's Prime Minister last week. Hobbling gingerly after his first bout of gout (podagra) in 18 months, Neville Chamberlain presided over a Cabinet meeting, his left foot swathed in an enormous flannel boot. Outside, London was whistling the newest hit tune: God Bless You, Mr. Chamberlain. What consolation he could the Prime Minister took from echoes of this ditty and from the list of his distinguished gouty predecessors: Derby, Disraeli, Palmerston, Melbourne, Canning, the Pitts.-Several of these statesmen courted gout by stuffing themselves with mutton chops and port. But hard...
Before the game the members of the band will spell out the letters of HARVARD, playing a different tune with each letter. "Our Director," "Soldiers Field," "Gridiron King," "10,000 Men," "Onward to the Goal," and "Score," a tun written especially for Yale games, will be played in that order. The band will then spell out ELI in script, and form an II facing the Harvard stands...
That Harvard drubbed Yale to the tune of our goals and four touchdowns to nothing may be partially explained by the rules difficulties. Football as it was played at Cambridge and football as it was played at New Haven were as unlike as marbles and ping-pong. For years the Yales and the Harvards couldn't get together...
...Bartholomew, will sing a group of American folk songs. The Program Choruses from Croesus and Prinz Jodelet Keiser Shoot, false love Morley Glorius Apollo Webbe (Written for the first Glee Club London, 1700) Chorus from Khovanstichina Moussorgsky (Soloist: Fred Rogosin, 1G) Harvard Follow me down to Carlow Irish Folk Tune Nina Porgolese (Soloist: Donald S. Dever, Jr., '41) Ca' Hawkie Through the Watter North England Folk Tune The Turtle Dove Scotch Tune (Soloist: Hunter H. Comly, '41) More Was Lost at Mohacs Field Hungarian Folk Song Yale Brothers, Sing On Grieg Yale and Harvard American Folk Songs...
...major portion of the drill again consisted of running off plays on the bags--to the tune of one hour. The last 15 minutes were under the lights. The passing yesterday was only mediocre, and the practice as a whole was not as satisfactory as Monday...