Word: tuneful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swam out to the sharks when he asked her to share his hut. Heartbroken, Stephen returned to England to discover that his daughter had unknowingly fallen in love with young Nigel, now grown up and endowed with an Oxford accent. Inspired by an evangelist who exhorts him to "tune in on the Universal Spirit," Stephen rescues his brother's will from a burning home, on his deathbed restores the 14th Sir Nigel Fearless to his ancestral seat. The 14th Sir Nigel takes Stephen's daughter with him. For Author Hutchinson, an ounce of moralizing is worth a pound...
...poems were notable for their uprightness; he considered the age poisoned by the licentiousness of Byron and Shelley, and in later years was said to have hurled a copy of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass into the fire. But he was soon to pipe a fiercer tune. Sacrificing his personal ambition to the cause of Liberty, he "knocked Pegasus on the head, as a tanner does his bark-mill donkey, when he is past service," and at 25 became an Abolitionist. Instead of eulogies from the critics he got rotten eggs and catcalls, more than once...
...weighty consideration the judge ordered the guilty party to pay a fine (considerably less than $5) to his friend. Ahmet Agha received the money from his friend, doubled it, placed it on the judge's bench, slapped the judge twice and left the court room whistling a tune." You must print this in your Letters section; don't you think so too? OMIROS KALCOGLU Istanbul, Turkey
...rate of 100 per day. Occasionally he would pick up a telephone, perhaps to bark, as he did to Motormaker Roy Dikeman Chapin (Hudsons), Hoover Secretary of Commerce: "I've been listening to that line of bunk from you fellows long enough. You'd better change your tune. Good...
...accuracy, to beat good time when their turns came to climb up on a grown-up chair, bow vigorously, tap for attention and direct the others. Karl Moldrem, the man who , founded and patiently trained the New York Baby Orchestra, appeared on the stage to help the children tune their violins, to remind each of the young conductors that they were to wave their arms in three-four or four-four time. Beyond that he left them to their own resources...