Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Camel News Caravan no one is ever referred to as "lucky." And on Lucky Strike shows there is never any mention of camels or caravans, of hoards of old gold, or of chesterfield sofas or overcoats. An adman for Chesterfield recently rewrote the lyrics of the show tune, Blue Room, for Singer Perry Como. The offending line read: "I can smoke my pipe away...
...this cost Gilcrease a mint of money, and despite a handsome income from his oil wells, he found his foundation in debt this year to the tune of $2,200,000 for items acquired but not yet paid for. One day last month Gilcrease went to Claremore to visit the Will Rogers Memorial, dropped into a curio shop run by Claremore's Mayor Jim Hammett. Gilcrease told Hammett his tale of financial woe. Hammett saw a chance to get the Gilcrease collection for Claremore, helped get together a group of influential Oklahomans, headed by Governor Johnston Murray...
...many times an architect takes the attitude that his client can call the tune because he's paying the piper. Often the client gets in the way of an architect's creative ability . . . An architect's first duty is to his art. The real art of architecture is monumentality-something that will make you gasp . . . This is what every architect has to think about . . . You can't get this artistic experience by simply following the client's wants. Your client is not an artist. If he were, he probably wouldn't have come...
...yuletide that boasts a hit tune called I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas (see Music), retailers did their utmost to provide the unusual-and expensive-in gifts...
Under Mr. Patterson the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra combined spirit and inaccuracy to sound like a typical group of musical amateurs. The strings often played out of tune in both the Messiah and Corelli's Christmas Concerto. Vigorously conducted by Michael Greenebaum '55, the concerto showed off Pierian's excellent first desk players, but they were hampered by the in-accuracies of those behind them...