Word: tuneful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...September 29--On my way to Cambridge but the chance to see another of my favorite World Series exhibitions held me up here in Gangtown stop Odds here on Cubs to win tomorrow's game but I forecast that Allen's curves will sew knots around Chicago batsmen to tune of 6 to 4 stop Noise here so great that I cannot concentrate properly but predict Crimson will down Bisons 39-0 stop Send $50 sooner quicker...
This makes a situation in which our poor human nature is sorely tried. College officers may do their best, but under the most virtuous of deans it is difficult to keep the young athlete from taking pay if his college is cashing in on the game to the tune of hundreds of thousands. It is the Eighteenth Amendment complex transferred to college athletics...
Sirs: ... I was on board the Prince Henry of the Canada Steamship Lines returning from Bermuda to Boston on Friday night and was able to get the radio operator to tune in on "The March of Time." About half of the passengers listened in and it was thoroughly enjoyed by all-especially since we had been riding a hurricane for nearly two days. I am sorry I cannot furnish you with a picture of about 50 or 60 passengers huddled around the great mass of furniture and rugs that were upset as a result of the gale we had been...
Smiling Faces has an elaborately trite plot about a film actress (Dorothy Stone) who marries her fiance's best friend (Roy Royston) to get in the social register so that she can wed the man she loves (Charles Collins) without costing him his, inheritance. It has one good tune ("Stumbled Over You") and another with a line beginning "And soon a baby face. . . ." Like most Fred Stone shows it has few sexy jokes and those it has deal exclusively with the intermediate sex. Sample: "Since this is A Midsummer Night's Dream, you don't mind...
...foreign political debts. Because the dollar is tremendously dear in terms of commodities is no reason, except to hardheaded foreign financiers and governments, and U. S. owners of foreign second mortgages which they hope to make first mortgages, at this time to cancel or readjust these debts to the tune of Depression prices and bankrupt business. So far as prices are concerned, it would seem that in a 62-year swing, foreign countries would have an opportunity to pay their debts at an average price dollar, and no doubt, when things take a different turn and the dollar is again...