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Word: tuneful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preliminary encounter, the Crimson cubs were soundly drubbed by the baby Elephants to the tune of 26 to 13. Harvard was behind from the start, and was never able to threaten...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Minor Week-end Sports | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

Author Breuer compares modern love to a nickel-in-the-slot piano: "Sad and twanging and uneven and the old sacred chords breaking through." This should be fair warning to readers who like a more classical-romantic tune. Memory of Love is an ambitious attempt to transpose the old sweet song into what traditional troubadours will call a purely imaginary key. Author Breuer is a woman but she writes her story in the masculine first person. Her feminine peers may see in her novel the projection of a feminine daydream : how it would feel to be a lady-killer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Daydream | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

Eight Houses were competitors in the second group of inter-House basketball games this term, which were played yesterday afternoon. In the first game Brooks House downed Eliot by a 20-7 score, following which Winthrop trounced Kirkland to the tune of 21-6. Dunster then defeated Leverett 16-12, after which the last game ended in a 17-10 victory for Lowell over Adams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News form the Houses | 1/10/1935 | See Source »

...second meet held yesterday, Adams House trounced Lowell House to the tune...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DODGE OF ELIOT BREAKS HOUSE SWIMMING RECORD | 1/9/1935 | See Source »

Catchiest tune of the evening was Cole Porter's "You're the Top" from the musical comedy Anything Goes (TIME. Dec. 3). So popular are Composer Porter's complicated lyrics that it is now considered the smart thing to know them all by heart, to rattle them off loudly wherever and whenever the tune is played. Excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: White House Tunes | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

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