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Word: tunefully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University and Freshman Cross Country teams emerged victorious last Friday from their meets with the respective Holy Cross aggregations. N. P. Hallowell '32 starred for the University team, whose score altogether was 19, as opposed to their opponents' 53. The Holy Cross Freshmen were likewise defeated, to the tune of a 15 to 53 count, with R. S. Murphy '33, leading the Harvard cohorts in their capture of the first five places...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY AND 1933 RUNNERS DEFEAT PURPLE | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...Continued from p. 40) Bigger and Better Than Ever in his anniversary Scandals. The tune is piffle; the sentiment is mere braggadocio. But he should again succeed, for he still knows how to polish the fleshpots. Once his girlish regiment sprawls on a beach, clad for maximum suntan. When costumes are more voluminous, engaging apertures are cut in them. Entrancing is a lady who stands vastly denuded, symbolic of the American Indian, and looks remarkably like Helen Wills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 7, 1929 | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...instrument, Professor Theremin announced, was to abolish the mechanical difficulties of technique, to place music-making within the scope of anyone able to hum a tune. Rights of manufacture, he hinted, were for sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pacific Opera | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...become too integral a part of the life of the country to be displaced because one of its fields of activity is barred. If listeners-in cannot hear the broadcasting of a big-league game, instead of selling their sets and going to see the game they will tune in on the amateur tennis or polo match which the broadcasters will substitute. There would be loss all around, for at present during a large part of the year amateur sports have neither the facilities nor often the desire to accommodate large number of people and if they made arrangements...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPORTS ON THE AIR | 9/28/1929 | See Source »

...Vidor's skill as a picturemaker is enough alone to make Hallelujah one of the best films of the year. Best actress : brown-yellow Nina Mae McKinney. not yet 18, who became a Manhattan chorus girl at 12, was picked by Vidor from the chorus of Blackbirds. Best tune: "The End of the Road" by Irving Berlin. Most dramatic sequence: Hot Shot (William Fountaine) running through the swamp when Preacher Zeke comes after him to avenge Chick's death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Sep. 2, 1929 | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

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