Word: tuneful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contest, listened to Negro preachers, attended a footwashing service of Hardshell Baptists. He discovered why the roads in Winston County are worse than their neighbors': the mountaineers there were still being punished for their refusal to send men for the Confederate army. He listed many a fiddle-tune, quilt pattern,, mountain and Negro superstition, collected some Brer Rabbit tales not to be found in Joel Chandler Harris. He heard of a legendary Jim. "the stud nigger," whose boss hired out his services to a far-away plantation. When Jim learned that he would have to travel 500 miles each...
...plaintiff was trained as a trained nurse and worked in hospitals. She has seen people die, even from such gruesome things as cancer. . . . Yet she comes under the influence of a cult that teaches that this is all a great delusion and those dying with cancer are out of tune with the infinite and with...
Adolf Hitler had consented, for no ambassador can be sent who is persona non grata. When the Roosevelt choice was on the fire it was said that the Nazi Chancellor would never accept a Jewish ambassador. By last week he had changed his tune, perhaps because of German fear of further reduction in Soviet Russia's already drastically curtailed purchases of German machinery...
...George and his keen-eyed Editor Arthur Brisbane he swept into Chicago for a preview of the Century of Progress. At luncheon there General Charles Gates Dawes revealed something that not even wise old Reporter Brisbane knew before: Publisher Hearst had underwritten last year's Fair to the tune of $500,000. twice as much as any other individual...
...broadcast over the three major networks. But he forgets to call for it the days he arrives downtown with a song in his head. Then he paces the floor and dictates the lyric, rushes to his big old piano, strikes an F sharp chord and painstakingly picks out the tune while a musical stenographer writes down the notes. Irving Berlin never had a music lesson. He plays by ear, in only one key. If he wants the effect of another, he turns a crank and the keyboard shifts...