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Word: tuneful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unstinted diligence on the part of Captain deGive in the nets, and determined although futile endeavor displayed by the rest of the team were not sufficient to halt the avalanches of powerful rushes of the McGill sextet as the Scarlet horde swamped the Crimson skaters to the tune of 12-2 in the Boston Garden last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McGILL WALLOPS VARSITY, 12-2, IN ONE-SIDED MATCH | 1/9/1934 | See Source »

...best of him. Miss Davies supplants Lili Yvonne as the lead in the Williams picture. When Temptress Yvonne whisks Crooner Williams away to a Mexican border saloon. Miss Davies pursues and persuades him to return. He is reeling slightly but still able to deliver one more tune, called "Our Big Love Scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lowell v. Block Booking | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

Convention City is adumbrated with many a drinking scene, a company song ("Oh. Honeywell" to the tune of "My Maryland"), and some quips which may cause some cinemagoers to wonder what Will Hays is doing. Typical sequence: a drunk loudly advocating that "Our merchandise be placed in slot machines on every corner, in case of emergency" only to discover that he is in the wrong convention. Flying Down to Rio (RKO). In the current cycle of musicomedies there are three major types: 1) elaborate revues, with plots based on backstage activities or neo-Freudian dreams, like Roman Scandals; 2) naive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lowell v. Block Booking | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

...crack Italian liner Conte di Savoia neared Naples, bearing roly-poly Comrade Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff from his triumph in Washington, the Italian Press burst with significant unanimity into a "tune" evidently called by Benito Mussolini. From the toe of the Italian boot to its strap among the Alps, Italians read that "Japanese dumping has become a new Oriental peril...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Western World v. Japan | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

...College Years" to hear painfully weak humming and mumbling and to see embarrassed glances at one's neighbor. This is increasingly true in every gathering at which the grand anthem of Yale is begun. Can't we out of respect to our traditions and past glories learn this simple tune and its significant words? Many do not even realize that the words "For God, for Country, and for Yale" originated here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 11/25/1933 | See Source »

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