Word: tone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...keen political speech. Its most effective part by far was that overtone of Republican formality. To his earlier rebukes. Spokesman Hughes added: "The whole tone of Governor Smith's campaign has been far below what the country had a right to expect...
...rebukes of Charles Evans Hughes?that he had "stooped too low to conquer," etc., etc.? it was not surprising that Nominee Smith was boiling inwardly on his way to Philadelphia. His wrath became apparent during the delivery of his Philadelphia speech, in the bitterness of his tone and the fre quent unleashing of angry "ain'ts," which discreet shorthand reporters corrected into ''is nots" and "have nots" but which there was no concealing from the radio audience...
...Holmes' statement, "The Republican party showed dangerous signs of corruption during the early years of President Harding's administration", is indefensibly pianissimo. I believe very few Republicans will tone down the oil; and veteran bureau scandals to "dangerous signs...
Please discontinue sending copies of TIME to this address. The tone of your magazine is not only hostile but insulting to members of the Catholic Church as the scurrilous verse on page 4, issue of Oct. 8 proves. TIME was recommended to me by you as a magazine of high standard but I find it unfit to be placed in the hands of our teachers and pupils...
...Bell Wright, Kathleen Norris, Edward W. Bok, Bruce Barton, Earl Derr Biggers, Will Durant, Albert W. Atwood, Robert W. Chambers, Booth Tarkington, Thomas L. Masson, Hermann Hagedorn, Vernon Kellogg, Daniel Frohman, Don Marquis. The last, an oldtime Democrat, author of The Old Soak, said: "I like the man: his tone, his manner, his essential character...