Word: tunes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...supreme in their lines, he comes high. I venture to say, in fact, that if he is to preside over our destinies for another two years, the people of this State will come to realize that 'the Sidewalks of New York' is for them the most expensive tune ever written...
...France: "Rustic neighbors of my country estate at Cocherel saw my summer crop of wheat and oats burst mysteriously into flame one midnight last week. Summoned in haste the local fire department was unable to extinguish the blaze until several barns and outbuildings had flamed upward to the tune of 200,000 francs. I, who have been ten times Premier of France, said not long ago: 'I do not claim to know the difference between a stock and a bond, since I have never owned a sample of either.' My Socialist constituents did not then stop to think...
From Madrid to Friedrichshafen glad tidings came at last. Dr. Eckener announced last week that the Spanish Government will subsidize the Zeppelin works for five years to the tune of 30,000,000 pesetas...
...states no fewer than twenty thousand laws relating to the railroads alone. Thomas Jefferson once asserted that a government was best when it governed least. What would he say, were he to rise from his grave and survey a government which practices the principle of non-interference to the tune of twenty thousand statutes affecting a single branch of our transportation system...
...same elevator that communicated with the cabaret's chorus dressing-room. That June night, after the theatre, Mr. White had gone to the cabaret. He sat about for a while, then ordered a table and a bottle of champagne in a corner of the room. The Floradora tune was almost over when Harry K. Thaw asked his party to excuse him for a minute. He had just seen Mr. White...