Word: tuneful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Long Island, and whose father, Clemmett Birdsong Perkins, is Eastern Passenger Agent for the Norfolk & Western Railway Co., played the Mendelssohn Concerto with the National Symphony in Washington. Gloria is a wispy little girl who wears big hair ribbons and oily black corkscrew curls. She took so long to tune her violin that the audience started to titter. But the feeling rapidly changed as the Concerto got under way. Gloria was not only technically expert but her playing had a simple persuasive quality that touched the audience deeply. Father and Mother Perkins are making a pianist of their son, Clemmett...
...about six in the evening, while there was a slight chill in the air, the evening stars were bright, and, if our intellectual almanac does not err, there was a bit of a moon. Dew was on the grass--at any rate, it was wet--and we were in tune with nature. Suddenly we saw ahead of us a couple. They were a plain, stubby couple, but they were arm in arm, and obviously not yet married. Approaching them, we listened for their remarks, with a benign curiosity. As they passed, the following morsel emanated from the lips...
...LaGuardia, New York's candidate for No. 3 political job in the U. S., unwise enough to believe he could compete with the "March of TIME" at 8:30 tonight! Though politically minded, I shall tune in on WABC rather than...
...years back. . . ." The President replied: "I am not in the least perturbed about the chime of bells because strictly between ourselves, I should much prefer to have a puppy dog or a baby named after me than one of those carillon effects that is never quite in tune and which goes off at all hours of the day and night! At least one can give paregoric to a puppy or a baby. "Referring to the mathematics days, do you remember your first day's class at Groton? You stood up at the blackboard-announced to the class that...
...Clark's enthusiasm aroused nearly as much hope in Los Angeles last week as Conductor Klemperer's first performance. It was whispered about that he might change his mind and go on providing, in part at least, for the orchestra he founded and subsidized to the tune of some $200,000 a year...