Word: tuning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second and last company smoker, tentatively slated for Thursday, December 23, should produce another evening of robust entertainment. . .among the repeaters from the first smoker will be G.L.Mason--of the tune-writin' Masons--Hershberg and company, and, of course, the inimitable Lagerquist. . .Lagie is expected to unspin, uhreel, unwind, bring forth with another of those tall, highly colorful, highly humorous yarns, tales, anecdotes, whoppers, whew...
...ills. "Manny" was always anticapitalist, anti-imperialist and against Britain's conservative governments, be they Labor, Tory or coalition. He was a leading Leftist in World War I, a vitriolic antidote to Labor's "traitorous" moderates in the years between the wars. He did not change his tune after World War II hit England: Churchill's coalition Government was "Winston's beauty chorus...
...also plays at least 15 musical and questionable instruments, to wit: banjo, fiddle, guitar, French harp, tenor guitar, ukulele, trumpet, accordion, piano, twelve-string guitars, Jew's-harp, dulcimer, five-string banjo, hand saw, rubber gloves, "and a tune I makes by just slopping against my cheeks with my hands." Tobalcker & Opry. How she acquired these abilities is something of a mystery, even to Cousin Emmy. She was born, next youngest of eight children, 12 miles from the nearest railroad at Lamb, Ky.-the family lived in a two-room log cabin which "had cracks between the walls...
Moral Strategy. "America's moral standing with many of the peoples of India, Burma and the contiguous areas is falling rapidly. Many intelligent, articulate people there have concluded that Britain is calling the tune as to strategy and the postwar destinies of these peoples, and they believe we have accepted the role of a subdued second fiddle...
...Tommies. Perla Siedle is the wife of Air Sergeant Jack Gibson, last stationed at Foggia, Italy, and she has two sons and one daughter in the South African Army. She has sung goodby to all of them, watching their ships move out of sight over the bar to the tune of her favorite closing number, Auld Lang Syne...