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Word: tuneful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yesterday afternoon before 300 people at the Myopia Hunt Club the newly formed Harvard Bicycle Polo Club met defeat at the hands of the more experienced Hamilton Bicycle Polo Club to the tune...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW BICYCLE POLO GROUP IS OVERCOME BY HAMILTON | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...Didn't Know What Time It Was, charming Marcy Wescott tremulously chalks one up for love. In Give It Back to the Indians, Rodgers & Hart sell short the Manhattan they raised a glass to in the Garrick Gaieties. In I Like to Recognize the Tune* Rodgers & Hart-who hate swing-give "hot" bands an earful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Harts & Flowers | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Leverett won a second game yesterday, in the touch league, setting a new high in scoring for the year by trampling Dunster underfoot to the tune...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leverett, Winthrop Win | 10/28/1939 | See Source »

Long before Longfellow penned his verses about the village smithy, rural Englishmen were singing a hippety-hopping tune to the words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Before Longfellow | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...touches to his variations. In Manhattan last week, John Barbirolli and the New York Philharmonic-Symphony gave them a first performance in Carnegie Hall. The Philharmonic's first-nighters found they had to chase Weinberger's spreading chestnuts through a thick foliage of neat counterpoint, got the tune hurled at them forwards, backwards, upsidedown, finally lost themselves in the fugue which ended up sounding like a CzechoSlovakian polka. In the score, when the English tune .went backwards, Composer Weinberger had carefully labeled it with the Latin words More Hebraeorum (in the Hebrew manner)* with the explanation: THGIR...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Before Longfellow | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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