Word: tuneful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General John Joseph Pershing. Most popular event of the evening was the performance of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. More spectacular than in fiction or cinema, a troop of 37 in scarlet tunics and broad-brimmed hats, carrying lances with pennants, maneuvered to the tune of The Campbells Are Coming...
During the college year 1935-36, tobacco to the tune of $46,000 was smoked away by undergraduates, a sum capable of paying the tuition and board of some forty odd students. This salient fact is based chiefly on the assumption that about 70% of the student body are partisans of Demon Nicotine. The figures released by Roy L. Westcott, Manager of University Dining Halls, show that in the Eliot House Grill and the House Dining Halls together, $11,185 in cigarette sales was taken in last year...
Those who like amusing, superficial, wise-cracking movies will enjoy this one. George E. Stone plays a humorous and appealing gangster, and there is a good tune, "You On My Mind". It is a good escape drama for Hour Exam blues...
...tune of $2,500. for which she played exactly 17 mm. 23 sec. in a General Motors broadcast from Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. Pianist Ruth Slenczynski. 11. was launched last week on another U. S. season. Day before she had arrived from Europe wearing a red scarf and tarn her mother knitted, a grey coat which her father boasted had cost him "nearly $50.''' Declared Father Slenczynski. never reluctant to talk: "I have been her only teacher...
...energetic press agents betrayed their lack of practice in dealing with real ones by describing Francis Richard Henry Penn Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, onetime Member of Parliament and Aide-de-camp to the late George V, with redundant emphasis, as "Lord" Earl Howe. Inheritor of a fabulous for tune for which a legal dispute that is still going on was sufficiently sensational a century ago to inspire Charles Dickens to write Bleak House, the 52-year-old Earl, whose stable of racing cars is Europe's most elaborate, failed to make a properly romantic impression on U. S. sportswriters...