Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sometimes choked with sorrow, sometimes sighing in contentment), the mellophone (an extravert relative of the French horn) and the chilly chimes of the vibraphone. Co-starring on this "Showcase" album: Pianist Ellis Larkins, who has a sophisticated beat all his own and a sweet, gentle way of dandling a tune...
...Tune. In Logansport, Ind., Sheriff 0. R. Carson heard three Cass County prisoners lustily singing There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, found that they were trying to cover the racket they were making while digging an escape hatch under the prison wall...
Leave of Absence. In time, Salem also became Nasser's propaganda minister. The dancing major insisted on calling his own tune, and as a result, he was in fairly constant trouble with his boss. Once on a diplomatic visit to Iraq, Salem impulsively waved aside all Egyptian objections to a pact between Iraq and its neighbors, Syria and Jordan. Egypt's closest ally, King Saud of Saudi Arabia, promptly raised a howl of protest, and Nasser hastily sent Salem off on a "leave of absence." He flew into a fit of temperament that only his older brother, Wing...
...point, some Episcopalians prefer not to call themselves Protestants at all. At Northfield the delegates considered a motion recommending that "Protestant" be dropped from the title of the Protestant Episcopal Church. But the Young Churchmen voted it down, 172 to 127, expressed their position in a song (to the tune of God Bless America...
...seven, Sophia Augusta Frederica, the penniless daughter of a petty German princeling, found "this idea of a crown . . . running in my head then like a tune, and [it] has been running . . . ever since." The music never stopped. Little Sophia of Stettin became Catherine the Great of Russia, one of the most brilliant women ever to mount a throne. Her Memoirs, published for the first time in an unexpurgated English-language edition, take Catherine only to the threshold of the throne. Nonetheless, her chronicle tells in candid detail how uneasy sleeps the head that even waits for a crown...