Word: tuning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tune Callers...
...anthem was written by Red Army Chorus Leader Alexander Alexandrov at about the time of the Old Bolshevik purges of 1936. As if the Soviet left did not know what its right was doing, Soviet hymn singers called the tune the Old Bolshevik Hymn. In 1939 it was awarded the coveted Stalin Prize. Its recent metamorphosis from hymn to anthem required a change of only a note or two and a new set of lyrics...
...Funsters in a dining hall selling spree, swept a waitress off her feet to the tune of four $100 bonds. Another resident bought a $500 bond, putting Dunster over this week's quota and this plus other sales equals 45 per cent of her total quota. William L. Sprout '47, is chairman of their drive...
Last week, this soldier logic was Mr. Roosevelt's. "The shrewdest and most successful practical politician of our time" may have convinced himself that the way to get in tune with the listeners at home is to speak with the voice of the soldiers abroad...
...rhyme with slapstick and music, the pantomime is rich in traditions. The hero is always played by a girl, the ugly old dame by a man; and there is usually a stuffed cat or dog. Biggest pantomime hit is Humpty Dumpty, breaking all records at the Coliseum to the tune of ?9,000 a week. Its animal is a stuffed terrier, that, like the rubber plant in Hellzapoppin, grows bigger each time it puts in an appearance. Its topical song-which the audience joins in on-runs: "When shall I see a banana again, tell me, mother...