Word: tunings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...keys are yellow, and their tone is as hard as peroxided hair. Gershwin's fingers found a curious music in them. He made it hump along with a twang and a shuffle, hunch its. shoulders and lick its lips. Diners applauded. "What's the name of that tune, honey?" asked a lady of Gershwin one night...
...accept the resignation. Dr. Little is President-elect of Michigan, putting an end to the seeming candidacy of Samuel Emory Thomason, Michigan '04, Vice-President of the Chicago Daily Tribune, only other individual whose name was even mentioned in connection with the important Michigan chair (TIME, Tune...
...robes, scarfs, peignoirs, polonaises made of the furs of every creature from a seal to a mongoose; good syncopation by the McCarthy sisters; terrible singing by Gordon Dooley; two blackamorons, Miller and Lyles, who ably support the hypothesis that a real Negro can be funny on the stage; one tune, What a World This Would Be, which will be monkey-organ fodder before very long...
...violinists in the Egyptian Theatre played another tune. . . . This is a dance hall. A piano with sinus trouble clangs for the twiddling feet of Big Jim McKay, swashbuckling prospector who picks his teeth and his sweethearts with a Colt 44. The tiny mustachioed orphan of the storm beams innocently over the shoulder of McKay's own dearest. . . . Old stuff about an endearing note which Chaplin receives by mistake. . . . Out to make his pile so that he can wed the Klondike Kitty Kelly . . . . More prospectors*. . . . The big strike; the search for the girl; the scene on board the ocean liner...
Hall choruses will sing almost in tune; so will various players in the two huge orchestras. Speakers will try in vain to make themselves heard; so will be chaperones. A few upperclassmen will break in; the rest will stay at home and smile...