Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nikita Balieff is bored with one thing-"The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers." Their famed mechanical march and the tune that went with it has been played, imitated, repeated over most of the civilized world. The idea came from a tradition of the autocracy of Tsar Paul I. Absentminded, the Tsar walked off the parade ground one afternoon, forgetting to give the command to halt. Because he was so cruel, nobody dared remind him. The soldiers went marching on to somewhere in Siberia before he remembered and ordered them to return. They arrived with beards. The Parade based on this...
...mournful notes may have been vaguely appropriate, but they did not seem so at the time. For the dulcet tones of popular melodies serve only to annoy the Stadium's frenzied occupants, whose demand will ever be for the trumpet's martial blare, and the cymbals' clash punctuating the tune of a familiar football song...
...less than 1001 stanzas, by conservative count, were composed by the A. E. F. and others to a tune which the A. E. F. found British troops singing when they got to France. Roughly speaking, the song had a heroine?a "mademoiselle from Armentieres," to whom the song was dedicated. Habitual singers of informal songs are to be found, who "know all the verses." No boast could be more egregious, yet a certain uniformity obtains in all "complete versions" recorded by bawdy memories (for all versions were bawdy). In general, any "complete version" recites the beauty and whimsicality...
Bills Payable. A taxpayer saw in the newspapers that the Navy consumed 383,550 gallons of fuel oil and gasoline searching for the Dole flyers. Irate, he telegraphed the War Department, received an answer that he and other taxpayers would pay for those oils to the tune...
...stone blind, finally gave up. One man was seized with mumps. Edward Keating, winner of the Lake George marathon, was dragged out, cramped. Lee J. Smith, legless swimmer, lost his chance for the prize by rescuing a drowning opponent. Byron Summers, the California "flying fish," swam to the tune of a band in his boat, swam many miles, caught cramps when in second place. Ethel Hertle, 15 miles out and in third place, collapsed with cold. Edith Heden, Finn, screamed with pain and was taken out, bitten by eels. "Women have a horror of that sort of thing. It makes...