Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When the final whistle is blown a joyful throng will make a bee-line for the goal-posts. Unless these are stoutly defended they will be torn to shreds in the twinkling of an eye. By this time one band will have struck up a tune and the other will have beat a hasty retreat. The crowd, of course, will mill around and the police will nab old offenders. I autloipate numerous celebrations of the victory and frequent brushes with the police...
That Harvard drubbed Yale to the tune of four goals and four touchdowns to nothing say be partially explained by the rules difficulties. Football as it was played at Cambridge and football as it was played at Cambridge and football as it was played at New Haven were as unlike as marbles and ping-pong. For years the Yales and the Harvards couldn't get together...
...line, Messrs Gordon and Ravel score in a small way with "Swing Is Here To Stay" and "I've Got My Heart Set on You." Raymond Scott and his quintet beat out "Twilight in Turkey" with intestinal fortitude in spite of two sinuous dancing girls who hardly do the tune justice...
...long Hyde Park conference with Chairman Marriner S. Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau and Budget Director Daniel W. Bell. Fearing the medicine of reduced Federal spending more than the disease of unbalanced budgets, businessmen, like the New Deal, began to sing a different tune. ¶ In Boston, where she went to visit her son John, convalescing after the removal of four wisdom teeth, Mrs. Roosevelt said to a group of cameramen: "I should think you'd get tired of taking my photograph." Said a rude photographer: "We do." ¶ Later in the week...
...long, smooth, thousand-mile slide of the Big River, widening to the Gulf. Down river cotton is king. Up north there is timber. "We built a hundred cities and a thousand towns but at what a cost." The forests of Wisconsin and Minnesota slip down sluices to the tune of "A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight." The Alleghenies are laid open in the quest for coal and ore. And the uncontrolled Mississippi floods to the delta, carrying the topsoil of the valley with it, leaving gullied hills, scalped plains. As an indication of how the great system...