Word: tunes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...France is self-admittedly in no hurry to settle the reparations and Ruhr rumpus. (This last point means that the Germans must change their tune and show that they are sincerely anxious to have peace by stopping passive resistance before the French will start negotiating...
...Long Island hotel. To and from the hotel I was wont to stop at a fruit stand owned by a Greek, who began every sentence with 'Yess.' The jingle of his idiom haunted me and my friend Cohn. Finally I wrote this verse and Gohn fitted it with a tune...
...great catchiness of the banana song is to be found partly in the brisk rhythm of the tune, but most in the magic of the phrase, " yes, we have no bananas." The root of the matter here seems to lie in a common grammatical perplexity, a perplexity over which many a person stumbles in common speech. How can you answer in one word, yes or no, to the question: " You have no bananas?" Often you will hear someone stammer "yes-no." The answer might reasonably be: " No, we have no bananas," with a direct logical opposite: " Yes, we have...
...everyone has treated the creatures with so little consideration. Even the Pied Piper of Hamlin took the trouble to produce a tune which would appeal to rats. In France and Switzerland animals were granted due process of law and one famous lawyer is know to have defended rats in court at Autun. The interest of some men takes the form a animal study. An English enthusiast reports the appearance of a plague of blind moles, a reaction, he thinks, of the war and the disappearance of the Hanoverian rat, and unwelcome attache to the House of Hanover...
...official reports from Peking there is probably not a word of truth in this contention. The Washington Post, in an editorial, humorously sums up the character of the Christian hymn-singing army: " An American officer reported that he had heard Chinese soldiers on the march singing to the tune of Onward, Christian Soldiers, but the words meant something different. They sang the Doxology at meals, but the words referred to the duty of every Chinese to save his country from decadence and obliteration. Morning and evening they sang Hark, the Herald Angels Sing, but the words were equivalent...