Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stokowski raises his baton and the scrannel strains of the violin and cello tremble, quite unsupported, in the hostile air. . . . Now another musician comes in. He carries a horn and a handkerchief and flops down in the first convenient seat; after a premonitory groan, his brass assaults the tune. . . . The piccolo players, the drummer and the flute stroll in, smiling and chuckling; one of them is trying to get a pack of cards into his waistcoat pocket. Obviously a game of penny ante has delayed them. . . . Mr. Stokowski stops while the last of his audience parade down the aisle. . . . Haydn...
...most unusual happening. It seems that the Piffle, Ipswitch's comic magazine, had grown tired of literary wit and had taken to more obvious measures. Attired in green tulle and early restoration flannels the editors were formed in double file and with file and drum marched dinfully to the tune of "Deep River". Various campus police accompanied them on horseback with loaded black jacks. The whole affair was, to be mild, the most humorous thing which has transpired in good old Ipswitch since the time that the faculty cow called on the president. Indeed, such evidences of virility and originality...
Through the dusk, down a soiled street, beside a factory wall, a file of men were marching. Their clothes were the color of the wall. Their faces were the color of the dusk. They walked without animation, each to his own tune as if they were following a drum that had been silenced. Where the wall ended, a row of policemen made a stiff blue dam across the street, leaving a gap just wide enough for the passage of these twilight marchers, right foot, left foot, shoulder to shoulder...
...SCHOOL days, SCHOOL days, Dear old GOLDen RULE days! READing, and WRITing and 'RITHmetic, TAUGHT to the TUNE of the HICK'ry stick ! You were my QUEEN in CALico, I was your BASHful BAREfoot beau; You wrote on my slate "I LOVE you, Jo." When WE were a COUPle o' KIDS, kids, kids, kids...
...words of the hymn should be set to some familiar tune such as "Integer Vitae", "Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand", or "Jerusalem the Golden". Further information concerning the competitions may be obtained from N. S. Rowe '26 in Grays Hall. The closing date for the competitions has been set for March 37. Free tickets for Class Day will be awarded to the winners...