Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still marches to the tune of Garry Owen, a drinking song whose lilting melody strongly resembles The Campbells Are Coming. Custer, then a lieutenant colonel of cavalry, chose Garry Owen as the regimental march of the ?th soon after the regiment was organized in 1866, heard it for the last time just before the 7th rode off in 1876-to massacre by Chief Crazy Horse's Sioux on the Little Big Horn...
...Penn Station, halting on the way for his first look at his daughter Margaret's apartment on upper Madison Avenue. Margaret was away, keeping a singing date at Hartford, Conn., but the President, after exploring, told her over the telephone that her piano was out of tune...
Thus, in 1915, Tin Pan Alley put to banal words & music the peacetime U.S. revulsion against soldiering. The words, if not the tune, still rattled around in the heads of U.S. military leaders. They wondered how soon after the Korean job was finished they would begin to hear the refrain again. For that reason, and because it was unwise to unfold all the facts of an unpleasant situation just before an election-and because no one had any clear-cut plan anyhow-the Administration talked all around the problem last week but never got to the truth. The truth...
...Muriel, Lady Anderson of her new Atomica symphony, a musical interpretation of "how man's whole mind changed from the moment the atom bomb dropped." "Of course," said Lady Anderson to her enthusiastic audience, "I was inspired. Man can do anything he wants if he will only tune in to the vibrations around...
...dire consequences if caught playing Western jazz a second time. In Cottbus, Communist police confiscated a stack of Western dance records and sent their owners to jail for two days. But the East German who was called upon to pay the piper most heavily for not calling the Communist tune was Egon Sander of Pirna. Last week Egon was dragged off the floor of a Pirna restaurant, sentenced to two years in prison for dancing the samba. The dance, said his Communist judges, was "endangering to the life of the state...