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Word: tuneful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Armistice Day medley will be the featured music while the band forms the letters HARLOW to the tune of "He's a Jolly Good Fellow" and a cannon shape from which it will shoot groups of players to spell ARMY...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band to Rival Cadets | 11/11/1939 | See Source »

Lowell House rooters ended their football season yesterday with the traditional band parade, but this year they got in tune with the times by the addition of a comely and high-stepping drum majorette. The band consequently showed a unity and spirit never before witnessed in the march to Soldiers Field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOWELL ACQUIRES MAJORETTE FOR FINAL GAME OF SEASON | 11/8/1939 | See Source »

...National Socialist storm troopers liked the snappy tune and text so well that they very soon adopted the entire twelve lines, almost without alterations. Only in the last two lines, the bloody-red standard had to be replaced by the swastika standard, and the proposed reversal of the "Jewish throne" was substituted for the program of protecting the Soviet Union: "Die Hakenkreuzfahne zum Himmel empor; wir stürzen den jüdischen Thron." The choice of Higher and Higher therefore was rather appropriate for the occasion, as hosts as well as guests could silently accompany the band with their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 6, 1939 | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Love Never Went to College (Hal Kemp; Victor). Bandleader Kemp's vocalists, "The Smoothies," earn their name on this glossiest version of Rodger & Hart's glossiest Too Many Girls tune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: November Records | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Starlings have long memories, sometimes tossing off the calls of summer birds in the dead of winter. Moreover, like humans, they occasionally go crazy over a popular bird tune number, most of the birds in a murmuration repeating it over & over until at last they get tired of it and discard it. Botanist Harry Ardell Allard of the U. S. Department of Agriculture has devotedly studied the mimicry of starlings, coaxing them to perform by placing nesting boxes outside his window. In Science last week he reported a prodigy. One starling, having imitated the long, low, monotonous call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Versatile Sturnus | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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