Word: tuneful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colonnades on either side. There, on June 26, would take place the Congress' climax, a High Pontifical Mass, followed by a monster procession, 15 miles long, in which 20,000 stewards were to herd the faithful into line, with loudspeakers every 180 ft. to help them keep in tune while singing hymns. The whole thing is to be broadcast,* filmed. Celebrant of the Mass, and of a special mass for 70,000 children from all over Ireland, is to be Papal Legate Lauri. This well-born Roman prelate, an oldtime lecturer in Rome's College of the Propaganda...
...than a rough idea of the words. "All right, boys, I'll take the next, five bars." He throws back his head, raises his trumpet, bleats noisily but marvelously. He has struck 200 high C's in succession, ended on high F. He slides all around a tune as easily as if he were doing it on a saxophone. He triple-tongues it in a way that has earned him the reputation of being one of the world's greatest trumpeters...
...Negroes behind Louis Armstrong are carrying the tune, when it can be detected behind his raspy, comical singing, his fancy trumpeting. Their rhythm is flawless, thanks to their leader who may smoke Muggles* to make his own performance hot but who realizes perfectly the need for tireless rehearsing. Louis Armstrong may have developed a fancy man's taste for clothes, travel with 20 trunks full of them. But no black man works harder than he does. In Depression not many phonograph artists are worth fighting over but Victor and Okeh are both aware that more than 100,000 Louis...
...this day of good will, when the Braves are in first place and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. retracts his views on the Eighteenth Amendment, the news from Dartmouth, Massachusetts is profoundly annoying. It is out of tune with the times. An innocent and unsuspecting Harvard anthropology student who went there in April and exhumed the bodies of slightly more than two dozen Wamponoag Indians is now in danger of suffering a three year jail sentence or a two thousand dollar fine for each set of musty bones which he spaded out of Farmer Soares little pasture. The Selectmen...
...been written by Gilbert & Sullivan or Franz Lehar or Victor Herbert. It set people to singing again songs they had never forgotten. Musical comedies do not act that way. They make what money they can while they are new, then fade into limbo forgotten except perhaps for a stray tune. But four years ago, even before the first curtain went up, Broadway sensed that Jerome Kern's Show Boat was different...