Word: tuneful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soldiers paraded, no trumpets blared, no drums rolled out an elegy. But throughout the Western World last week a mighty marching tune reverberated. Sir Edward Elgar, 76, was dead in Worcester, England. He was Britain's foremost composer. Master of the King's Musick. His Pomp and Circumstance was practically a national anthem.* But as he lay dying from an abdominal operation last autumn. Sir Edward had made his daughter promise not to give him a pompish London funeral. He had grown up in Worcester and in Worcester he had chosen to end his days. He never posed...
...steady listener cannot have failed to appreciate the general improvement of the average program. Whether it is because the technical developments in both transmitting and receiving apparatus tend to encourage the public ear to expect better things, or because the tenor of the age is not in tune with staccato rhythms and the grosser tin-pan melodies is a matter for speculation. Certainly the technique of arranging musical instruments before a microphone has increased the illusion of reality almost as much as the widened tonal range of most of the modern receiving sets. With many of the earlier loudspeakers...
...turned to a more serious subject. "It's a good thing that the actors and actresses of the screen are rejurning to the stage. Talkies have to use actors with legitimate stage training. While working in pictures the actors get out of tune with an audience, and an actor is only as good as his audience. An audience brings out the best in an actor, and if he stays in pictures too long he loses a great deal of ability. This is especially true in comedy...
...Those listening in from dry states may now tune out this station, for the next program is not intended to offer alcoholic beverages for sale or delivery in any state or community wherein the advertising, sale or use thereof is unlawful...
...Germany, where Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels tries to make all news-organs play the same tune "like a great organ of many pipes," Organist Goebbels seemed unable to make up his mind about Roosevelt money, permitted a divergence of expression unprecedented since he sat down at the Fatherland's Press keyboard. Led by the Vossische Zeitung, one section of the German financial Press flayed President Roosevelt for "disturbing the world with a rubber dollar" expanding and contracting between 50? and 60?. Other equally authoritative papers echoed the Berlin Börsenzeitung...