Word: tuneful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past, NRA, Manchukuo, the Polish corridor, dictators, inflation, tariff, open doors, war will be followed by new, more complex problems which must be tackled by men who must take up the unfinished tasks of leaders and followers of today. And as people of the country rise in gyroplanes or tune in a television station piece by piece that panorama of the fullness and breadth of the world will keep unfolding for the student who begins in college to interpret and learn rather than to learn alone...
...Mason, Ohio, G. L. Gerard heard mountain fiddlers playing a tune from inside a rain spout on his barn. All over town tin roofs spat fire at the touch of a screwdriver, lights flashed on at 2 a. m. John La Mar, who sells melons, pointed an accusing finger at a steel tower which tapers 831 feet above the village, insisted: "I've watched clouds come rolling up until they reach that tower. Then they split in two and each part goes a different direction and we don't get a drop...
...there was much complaint among the Elephants of ill-heated rooms due to icy radiators and the Maintenance Department has in the fullness of time takes there strong measures to keep the Pachyderms warm. It has also smiled its paternal smile on the chilly Lowell House men to the tune of 55 radiators...
Noble Sissle has been twice bankrupt, many times successful. During one of his flush periods, he met Alfred Stern, son-in-law of the late Julius Rosenwald. Last week the Rosenwald Fund helped out Sissle's pageant to the tune of $3,000. Sissle wrote the book for the show, gathered around him such Negro musicians as N. Clark Smith, son of an African tribesman and an authority on African music, William Vodery, who arranged most of Ziegfeld's Show Boat music. Will Marion Cook ("Ghost Ship"), Harry Lawrence Freeman ("Voodoo"), Harry T. Burleigh ("Deep River" ). J. Rosamund Johnson ("Lazy...
Because the tune of "Happy Birthday to You" sounds precisely like the tune of "Good Morning to All," Sam H. Harris, producer of As Thousands Cheer, last week found himself the defendant in a Federal plagiarism suit asking payment of $250 for each and every performance of the song. If As Thousands Cheer closes on schedule the first week in September the grand total demanded will be $100,750 for 403 performances. Lyricist Patty Hill, who will share in the damages, if any, had no complaint to make on the use of the words because she long ago resigned herself...