Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Simple was it now for the GOP to point to the Governor's popularity and non-New Dealism, change its tune from "A vote for Brann is a vote for the New Deal" to "A vote for Brann was a vote for Brann." But Republicans would have to talk loud & fast about their impressive clean sweep to convince the nation that Maine had not simply proved itself to be Maine, that Alf M. Landon...
...Skipper Sopwith's challenge was the date he proposed for the first race, July 24. The date suits him because his challenger, Endeavour II, built last winter, has been racing all this summer. It does not suit the New York Yacht Club because it leaves little time to tune up an as yet unbuilt defender next spring. First job of the committee which the Club last week empowered to act on the challenge will be to arrange a not particularly sporting deal, whereby, in return for such favors as permission to have his boat towed across the Atlantic instead...
...words are usually from Scripture; the tune unpretentious-nothing so difficult as Bach or Handel. Majority of the anthems which plain churchgoers like, and which their choirs sing, come from the industrious pens of some 20 U. S. anthem-writers. Of these the most prolific is Mrs. Carrie Belle Adams. In Portland, Ore. last week Mrs. Adams sent off to her publishers four new anthems, baked a jelly cake, celebrated her 77th birthday...
...ball room, all right. . . ." John Hamilton sitting on a hotel breakfast table, white napery included, to interview the press. . . . The orchestra in Hotel Hollenden's cocktail room playing Happy Days Are Here Again at the instigation of a newshawk and none of the roomful of Republicans recognizing the tune...
...valuable bedlam of commercial broadcasting originated in 1920 when a Pittsburgh department store plucked a Westinghouse experimenter from his garage, where he was sending out an occasional phonograph tune, set him up as historic Station KDKA. Radio makers began to multiply like summer flies. Most of them were soon swatted by the proverbial vicissitudes of their industry. Relatively few of the early breed even survived for the cream-jugs of the late 1920's. Still fewer continued to buzz right through Depression...