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Word: tuneful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some trouble to prove there is still entertainment in Graustarkian romance. It took two plays, four playwrights and a screen writer with some help from Director Frank Tuttle to supply the story. The music, nice but not gaudy, was rewritten three times, final credit going to Sam Coslow. Best tune: "Dancing the Viennese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cinema, Feb. 25, 1935 | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

Minus the services of Leavitt S. White '37, star right forward, the Harvard Varsity basketball team went down to defeat before the Cornell five to the tune...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Minor and Freshman Weekend Sports | 2/23/1935 | See Source »

...London a solemn convention of British church musicians was admonished by the Most Rev. William Temple, Archbishop of York, to stop ending hymns with "Amen." Said the beefy, chuckling Archbishop: "I would plead that we should get out of the evil habit. If the tune is a good one, it comes to an end by itself. To put an 'Amen' afterward is redundant-I think it is rather a bore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 18, 1935 | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

...train in Philadelphia, stepped spryly off in Manhattan. Unperturbed by the fact that she had no money, Dr. Davenport made herself at home on a piano stool in the sitting room of the Travelers Aid Society. When newshawks arrived, she spun around on the stool to play a tune called "Dance of London" which she had composed that morning. Then up she jumped, threw a kiss toward the ceiling, cried: "I'm in a different world when you people are not here. I go upstairs and read Spinoza's Moral Ethics. There is a book! I also read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 18, 1935 | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

Encouraged by last Saturday's successful start, the Varsity and Freshman swordsmen will clash with the Tech fencers tonight at seven o'clock in the indoor Athletic Building. The Varsity last week defeated the Hartford Fencers' Club to the tune of 16-11, while the Freshmen won 7-2 over Dummer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON SWORDSMEN TO BATTLE TECH TONIGHT | 2/13/1935 | See Source »

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