Word: tuning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cortesi stuck to his tune, and the Times stuck to him-until Mussolini in 1939 forbade any Italian to work for a foreign newspaper. Thereupon the Times sent him, first to Mexico City for two years, then to Argentina. There he followed his old, pleasant habits. Only once did one of his articles offend: last August the Argentine Government jailed him for eleven hours, but (he wrote) "throughout . . . treated [me] with courtesy." Other foreign correspondents sneaked stories out (via Montevideo) about the oppressions of Argentine dictatorship. Reporter Cortesi argued urbanely with Argentine censors-but never once tried to by-pass...
...sister (Jean Heather) and-thanks to the toxic ministrations of mad-scientist Hall-a phosphorescent Grandma (Mabel Paige). ("I glow, don't I?" she says proudly.) By her light MacMurray reads about granddaughter Bonnie's great bank robbery; as she dies, the old lady bequeaths him the tune and its doubletalked words which-to the proper person-will reveal the hiding place of $70,000 in bank loot. After that things get a little complicated...
...Buckingham Palace, he was delighted at the way Queen Victoria sang his songs ". . . beautifully in tune . . . and with very nice expression. Only where ... it goes down to D and then comes up again . . . she sang D-sharp each time; and because the first two times I gave her the note, the last time, sure enough, she sang D-where it ought to have been D-sharp. But except for this ... it was really charming...
...never heard a song upon the lips of my mother. I never even heard her hum a tune. . . . She was a confusing mixture of sternness, gentleness, and strength of will and purpose. She had borne twelve children, and had buried three of them. When the harvest required it, she had taken her place in the field. She had planted and tended the vegetable garden. She had spun the cloth, and had made the clothes which my father, my sisters . . . and I wore...
There was rarely any money in the Norris home. Young George remembered well the day the first coal-oil lamp arrived. He gathered and shelled hazelnuts for months to earn enough money to buy an accordion. When he got it, the first tune he played was Jesus, Lover of My Soul...