Word: tuneful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commodore last week was held a Tammany Hall Victory Dinner to celebrate last November's electoral success in city, State and nation. On hand and still talking earnestly about economy was Tammany's own John Patrick O'Brien, stop-gap Mayor of New York.* To the tune of "In Old Shanty Town," 1.200 diners serenaded Boss John Francis Curry thus...
...whose conduct heretofore was strictly noblesse oblige. A characteristic prodigality has always been the Prince's distinguishing trait. A good illustration of this was the time when, having only fifteen dollars between him and the park bench, he dined on caviar. Strassbourgh goose liver, and champagne to the tune of twelve dollars, left a three dollar tip, and then stalked royally out without a cent in his pocket...
...Adolf Hitler was Germany's rising star. In 1932 he and his Nazis slipped back to the tune of 2,000,000 lost votes. His thunder was largely stolen...
...week 15 paying members of a "dude" adventure cruise, scheduled to leave Long Beach, Calif, for the South Seas', prematurely got a melodramatic money's-worth while their boat was still tied to the dock. The trip's impresario, a middle-aged professional soldier-of-for-tune named Valerian Johannes Tieczynski, alias Captain Walter Wanderwell, fantastically paid for his clients' thrill with his life...
...spirited though one-sided swimming meet yesterday afternoon in the Indoor Athletic Building, the Adams House tanksters easily sank the hopes of their Kirkland House rivals to the tune...