Word: tuning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...better or for worse, the Polish issue had been settled (see FOREIGN NEWS). San Francisco had completed a world charter (see below). British, Russian and U.S. .occupation policies for Germany were not exactly in tune, but they had raised no violent discord. So what would the Big Three have to talk about? The British source listed two wordy topics...
...merry jape and ready wit" quite low, and was "considering steps to correct this. . . ." Whether his boss (Hearst) had told him to get off his Johnny-one-note of hate toward labor leaders, foreigners and New Dealers, or whether Pegler had decided all by himself to change his tune, no one knew. Wrote Pegler...
...five tune-up fights since getting out of the service. ... I scored five knockouts. So what happens? Some guy refers to 'em as Larry Laydowns. What did you fellows want me to do ... fight Joe Louis the minute I took off my uniform...
...George Gershwin at the piano and Paul Whiteman's big, brassy band shattering the serenity of Manhattan's Aeolian Hall-neither audience nor critics liked their first taste of concert jazz. The Herald Tribune objected to its "complete lifelessness." Most audiences, if not critics, have changed their tune in the 21 years since then...
...Gershwin such as no composer has ever had before. It premised to outdin by far the boom of Mozart (aided & abetted by the phonograph companies) four years ago on the 150th anniversary of his death, and the 1941 Tin Pan Alley reglorification of Tchaikovsky which finally led to a tune called Everybody Makes Money but Tchaikovsky...