Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German exile Baron Gottfried von Cramm: the London Grass Courts tennis championship, No. 1 tune-up for this week's All-England tournament at Wimbledon (in which he is not entered); defeating Ghaus Mohammed of India in the final, 6-1, 6-3; for his first major tennis victory since he was imprisoned by the Nazis for moral turpitude over a year ago. In the semifinals, the onetime German Davis Cupper, now living in Sweden, trounced Bobby Riggs, No. 1 U. S. amateur, 6-0, 6-1. Said Donald Budge, who was among the spectators: "I think Germany made...
...believe it is the most sacred and precious spot at the Fair," cried New York's Mayor LaGuardia at the opening. Precious to the tune of $30,000,000 in insurance, the paintings were hung in a windowless concrete and steel building, thorny with burglar alarms, guarded day & night by a Pinkerton detective in each of the 25 rooms. But because no grandeurs were attempted and most of the pictures were small. World's Fair trippers could get through the show on their first legs rather than their last...
...Francisco's, in the California Building. No competition for such Fair attractions as Treasure Island's Dnude Ranch or Flushing's Sun Worshippers, Land of Liberty is worth sitting through, if only for the kick of watching Liberty marching to Hollywood's double-quick tune...
...polka. An army officer told Sousa that in a Borneo jungle he met a boy with a violin, sawing out the familiar deedle-dee-dums of the march. How many millions of copies the Washington Post sold, John Philip Sousa never knew. Like many composers with a good tune, he sold his rights to it early, to a Philadelphia publisher...
...First Slavonic Dance (in C major) Dvorak *Large from the "New World" Symphony Dvorak *Irish Tune from County Derry Grainger *"Finlandia," Symphonic Poem Sibelius Pastorale and Procession Langendoen (Conducted by the composer) *Symphonic Variations, for Piano and Orchestra Franck Soloist: Elizabeth Siedhoff *"By the Beautiful Blue Danube," Waltzes Strauss *"Bach Goes to Town" (A Fugue in Swing) Templeton *"Washington Post," March Sousa...