Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pole vault, where the favored Emile Dubiel was able to clear only 13 feet for a second to Yale's Harding, who sailed over 12 feet, a inches. Norman Cahners picked up the other second place for Jaakko's men when he dispatched the 35-pound weight to the tune of 50 feet, 9 1-2 inches, just four feet behind the winning toss...
...York to air his views on finances and housemaids, the law school professor saw him late one afternoon in the lobby of the Shoreham. J. P. was standing alone in front of one of the big windows, looking out over snow-covered Rock Creek Park, whistling a gay tune aloud. On his way to the bar our friend stopped for a moment; he thought he had heard the song some place before. He had; it was "I Got Plenty O' Nuttin...
...there is practically never cause for com plaint. Her tidbit in this show is her impersonation of a solemn Jewish dancer interpreting "Rewolt" and "de Messes." Plump, ingratiating Comedian Bob Hope (Roberta) is given an amusing song to sing hopelessly to comely Eve Arden (Parade). Vernon Duke wrote the tune; Ira Gershwin the lyric...
...Uncle Sam is closing in on the Duke with a vengeance. Tenser and tenser becomes the rack on which everybody including the audience is strung, until there comes the inevitable snap. Startling things happen in the denouement, to the staccato tune of rifle and machine-gun fire. And as you leave the theatre, slightly stupefied, you find all sorts of psychological problems of intricate relationships and true identities clamoring for solution. You also find six or sever characters impressed indelibly if somewhat confusedly upon you memory, which is saying a lot for a movie. "The Petrified Forest" is an awesome...
Just what had occurred in the intervening 60 days to make Mr. Eccles change his tune was not explained. But plausible reasons included a sizeable expansion in brokers' loans; a strong resurgence of inflation fever; and, since the present Reserve Board retires in a body this week, an unwillingness to leave a serious fire hazard to a new Board, the majority of whose members may need time to master their fire-fighting equipment...