Word: tuning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hallowed walls of F-31 are resounding with the refrain of Dave Blumberg's new song, "I Was Raised to the Tune of the Telegraph Key" or "Shoot the Loco' to me Koko." This little ditty should prove popular with all who are interested in Transportation (alias the glorification of the R.R.'s). Therefore, a conservative estimate places the net circulation of the new ballad at approximately...
...direct loans, the U.S. would remain in a position to call the tune for each debtor. The other nations, mindful of the effects of the whimsical U.S. lending tariff policy of the prewar decade, might well prefer exchange controls and bilateral barter agreements among themselves to the acceptance of "humiliating" credit terms, and those loans which do not "fit their internal needs and their sense of national dignity...
Four days later, at the close of his next press conference, the President changed his tune. When another reporter-this time the New York Herald Tribune's Bert Andrews-asked him if he had anything to say about Term IV, the President grinned, said the reporter was only guessing but this time he was guessing right. Whereupon Franklin Roosevelt read to the correspondents a letter he had just dispatched to Democratic National Chairman Hannegan...
Economists sang: one evening H. E. Brooks, a good pianist who is also a mem ber of the British delegation, sat down in the lounge and rippled out The Blue Danube, favorite tune of Lord & Lady Keynes (the former ballet dancer Lydia Lopokova). The peer and the peeress sang the words for the delegates near them.' Money vanished: while delegates up stairs in the Mt. Washington Hotel tried to conjure up world money, downstairs in a little bar (with a small orchestra and drinks at $1 a throw), Cardini the Magician made money disappear in his long fingers...
...Masters. Scientific exactitude in tuning is expected of any hack, but there is a further area where taste, artistry and individuality are paramount. No two master tuners will tune a piano exactly alike, nor will any master tune a piano the same way for different occasions. A piano that is perfectly tuned and "regulated" (by fluffing up the felt hammers to soften tone) for a broadcasting studio will sound all wrong in Carnegie Hall. A piano that is to accompany a violin is adjusted differently from one that is to accompany a cello. A tuner with a sensitive personal touch...