Word: tuning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreign bond speculations in the '20s, Latin American governments floated ever larger issues at interest as high as 8% on the U.S. market, and many banks turned to cajolery and a few even to bribes to handle the business. With the Depression, Latin countries defaulted to the tune of $1.3 billion. Last week the dance of the millions came to a slow-beat and reasonably happy...
During the Cleveland Orchestra's breakneck European tour (eleven countries, 29 concerts in 41 days), its reception has been in tune with the critic of Paris' Le Monde, who thought that he had "never heard anything more excellent." In Barcelona audiences cheered their approval of the orchestra's classical repertory. For Budapest-born Conductor George Szell, the greatest recognition came in Vienna. where that dean of critics, grumpy old (83) Max Graf, who knew Szell as a boy, voiced one of his rare, muted raves. "The sounds," he said, "were good indeed...
Overnight, Cairo was ablare with importuning speeches and ablaze with beseeching banners. One candidate had already unmasked a rival as an "American agent," and the rival was desperately taking ads in the papers to protest his 100% Egyptianism. Another was laying siege to coffeehouse customers with a tape-recorded tune: "With freedom elect him. Elect Moussa Sabri." To make sure the fun was harmless, Nasser instituted a new legal provision last week: any speaker who criticizes any public official must furnish the authorities with documentary proof of his charges within five days of making them...
...this song which I have heard sung since I was a boy!" Already fearful of budget slashes, Mumford unhappily allowed: "I cannot account for its absence." Hearts, heavy over their failure, some library employees set lobster pots all about the capital in hopes of snaring Rooney's elusive tune. Last week, to the everlasting glory of the Dewey decimal system, a reading-room worker made the catch, vindicated Mumford. Rooney, face red as a lobster's, had got the title wrong, owed apologies to Wise Guy Mumford. The song: I'd Rather Be a Lobster Than...
...Playhouse go and ABC's Wire Service, it was clear that Tennessee Ernie was a new kind of Ford in TV's future. Jaws slack and chipmunk eyes watering, his mouth listing to port in a mustachioed half-smile, Ernie could slam into a fair-weather tune with authority, sink back languidly into some corn pone-and-molasses badinage about his pea-pickin' cousins (he claims 150 kinsfolk) or how to make porcupine meat balls. He could turn a muffed line into an "Ernie-ism" ("I'm as nervous as a long-tailed...