Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...SCHOOL FOR AMBASSADORS AND OTHER ESSAYSpired to write his most important essay in defence of Ambassadors. He finds that from the orators of old they have constantly grown in numbers and importance and that, whereas yesterday they sought the ears of princes, today they seek to tune in to the voice of nations, a vastly more complicated mission...
...best to stem the Crimson batsmen who scored at will for four innings, and indeed he succeeded in the fifth inning in holding the gentlemen to one run. In the next frame, however, the upholder of Harvard's journalistic honor knocked him out of the box to the tune of six home runs, four triples and three bases on balls. Joe Dube, hitherto paid by the lampoon as umpire, was then called to pitch the remainder of the one-sided game...
...flawless record it brought last year. At the same time, the Tiger has played a series of hard games, and in its win column are numbered teams that have taken the Crimson into camp handily. Bowdoin was beaten 14 to 7, Georgetown bowed to a 6 to 2 tune and Columbia was trimmed by the same one run margin by which the New York, nine defeated Harvard. Yet in the past, comparative scores have availed the Tiger little...
...person, great-nosed, lean-a melancholy marabou of a man-he understands as no one else alive the U. S. buddy ballplayer, salesman, cop, yegg, bootlegger and poobah. His wit crackles like static, loud enough to disguise, but never to obscure, the grave or bitter tune that runs behind it. In his new book, he writes a series of satiric squibs about religion, Europe, chorus girls, Finnish dramatists, athletes. They are not in his best manner...
...swift was the Singing Waiter's rise from Rags to Riches that the reversal hardly lends enough body to his biographer's Cinderella-theme. When Berlin was 19, Nigger Mike discharged him. Within four years, he had written a tune which was played in every corner of the U. S., in Shanghai, Moscow and along the Riviera, which "came in brass across the harbor of Singapore from the boats riding at anchor there"?Alexander's Ragtime Band. Within four years more, he had written hundreds of other successful songs, including When That Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam, Everybody...