Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...March 4, Alfred Emanuel Smith stayed in bed till 10 a.m. at West Palm Beach, Fla. Cornered by newsgatherers he said, "Well, I'd forgotten the date. It is really March 4 now, isn't it? No, I don't think I shall tune in. What I want to do is shoot some golf." Asked if he had sent a message to Mr. Hoover, he answered, "Why should I bother him to read a telegram from me? I called on him a while ago personally and gave him my good wishes." Out on the golf course while...
...sang the heart of Richard Hovey, Dartmouth '85. Now Dartmouth wants the Hovey words set to music, and an anonymous enthusiast has offered $1,000 to any composer, regardless of creed or college, who submits the best, most fitting tune to Judges Channing Cox, '01, of Boston, onetime Governor of Massachusetts; Nelson P. Brown, '09, of Everett, Mass.; and Charles E. Griffith, '15, of Newark...
Costes raged and rushed to Le Bourget field outside Paris. Mechanics warned him that his motor was not in perfect tune, No matter; he would go. And as night set in he pulled his controls. The motor stuttered yet lifted him clear of the ground in a slow ascent. He barely cleared some telegraph wires, a village church steeple. At Bondy Forest, only a few miles from Paris, the motor failed altogether and his plane clattered among the trees. In the rip-up he strained his leg, the only leg left him by the War. Helped to the ground...
...casual observer, the suggested reform to the tune of $11,000,000 to make an "inner-college" system, seems infinitely preferable to the present chaotic system at Harvard, where all the students with the exception of the Freshmen, are cliqued in small groups all over Cambridge and eat and sleep wherever their purses and inclinations desire...
...last week on the House floor was highly technical. Behind the technicalities was a defeat for the Anti-Saloon League that must have made Wayne B. Wheeler revolve in his Ohio grave. Over the most potent prohibiting force in the U. S., the Republican House machine rolled to the tune of 240 to 141, leaving the League, for the first time since the 18th Amendment, flat and broken by the legislative wayside...