Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elected Foreign Minister in 1918, Eduard Benes held the job for 17 years largely through sheer ability, for during that time his own political supporters, the Czech National Socialists, were usually the least influential of the major parties. During this time, France and Britain called the European tune from Geneva, League Delegate Benes' logical, forceful arguments were helping them carry many a day, and those nations flatteringly bestowed on him the title of "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman...
...literary exercises, first event on the Class Day program, will consist of the delivery of the Class oration by Wiley E. Mayne of Sanborn, Iowa; the Class Ode, written by Morris Earle, of New York City, and sung to the tune of "Fair Harvard" under the direction of the Class Chorister, Robert W. Snyder, of Easton, Pennsylvania, and the Class Poem, by John S. Bainbridge, of New York City...
...have been designed in a fastidious recoil from the ostentatious earthiness of Midwesterners like Thomas Benton and Grant Wood. That State committees were an unpredictable factor was equally apparent in the State of Washington exhibit, predominantly abstract, and the Massachusetts collection, which was academic, mythological, and as out of tune with its neighbors as a choir at a Benny Goodman swing concert...
...such ballad, recently created, celebrates the deeds of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Brave Engineer (to the tune of Casey Jones). Sample stanzas...
...that has been needed to make radio listening a completely sedentary occupation was elimination of the necessity for struggling up out of a comfortable chair to cross the room and tune another station. The eliminator made its appearance last week when at a dealers' and distributors' Chicago convention, Philco Radio & Television Corp. engineers demonstrated their new Mystery Control unit...