Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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America has been pouring relief funds into Porto Rico to the tune of a million a month. The cessation of this might not mean social disruption, but the most cautious Porto Ricans predict just that. Losing the island will not mean exposing the Canal Zone, for the naval base on the island of Culebra will be retained, as will various fuclling stations. In fact, it seems in every way advantageous to the United States to play the part of a kindly big brother. Porto Rico will be distinctly the loser if that country fails to see through this quasi-benevolent...
Losing only two singles matches and making a clean sweep of the doubles the Varsity tennis team disposed of the Amherst netmen to the tune of 7 to 2 yesterday afternoon. The visitor's two victories were obtained at the expense of Jim Thackera, who has had tough going at the number 1 post, and Bob Bentley, who recently displaced Robertson at number...
...addition to the speakers, there will be both decorations and music. The VFW anthem which has just been completed, will be sung to the tune of the Vagabond Song...
Oriental self-sacrifice played to the tune of splitting shells and roaring torpedoes, is the essence of "Thunder in the East", a picture based on Claude Farere's "The Battle" and set in the Russo-Japanese War. Merle Oberon achieves a slightly more Levantine slant to her eyebrows than Charles Boyer, but both of them succeed eminently in depicting the grim subservience to authority husband for one and country for the other that is the essence of this film. Their performances in this production, we are told, gave them their introduction to Hollywood...
...only learned Rachmaninoff's new Paganini Rhapsody from records but also could rattle off his own piano transcription of the complicated orchestra score. Alec Templeton amazed Critic Edward Barry of the Chicago Tribune by making a perfectly good piano sound as if it were horribly out of tune. At a recent Chicago party, Pianist Templeton was asked if he would accompany Violinist Nathan Milstein in Lalo's Symphonic espagnole. The blind pianist replied he did not know the work but would play it if someone ran through it first. Pianist Templeton then negotiated the longish composition with...