Word: tunes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next morning the new Speaker called the House to order for Joe Byrns's state funeral, recessed for an hour to await distinguished guests. Many Representatives stayed in their seats, talked quietly as the galleries filled. At 11:30 a U. S. Navy band struck up a muted tune in the Speaker's lobby. The House rose as a flag-draped coffin was rolled in, placed among the flowers piled high against the rostrum, opened. For half an hour Representatives, clerks, pages shuffled by it. Then Speaker Bankhead's gavel rapped again and tall, grey Chaplain James...
...DeLee's birthday (Oct. 28) the adoring Mother's Aid Club salutes him with the following ditty to the tune of The Man on the Flying Trapeze...
21st.--Ope'd my eyes very betimes, but lay long a humming some Oriental tune, yet I know not where I got it; thence, soft sun in my face, to muse on this fine tribute to morning and how rich are its lines...
Warner Baxter, "The Robin Hood of El Dorado," shoots the cursed gringos out of California to the tune of pounding hoofs and boiling blood in one of the most virile pictures of the year. The redoubtable Joachim Murietta is sympathetically apologized for. "Unguarded Hour," with Franchot Tone and Loretta Young, is a collection of harrowing crises, foremost of which is the breaking of the district attorney's spectacular prosecution, simultaneous with his being accused of murder...
...Case Against Mrs, Ames (Paramount) opens with a shot of a loudspeaker which emits a march tune and an announcement that its dramatized news program is that of "the weekly newsmagazine." There follows an inordinately frenzied resume of what would appear to be just another murder. All this constitutes a dubious asset to a crime-&-courtroom picture which is otherwise well-plotted, well-paced entertainment...