Word: tone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fenway, continuous-"Lilac Time". A distinctly unsound sound picture. Don't stand in line to see it whatever you do, although the accompanying movie Tone and Vitaphone is good...
...finally let TIME adopt a more gentlemanly tone toward women, and especially toward ladies...
...better can sound the tocsin that will start a revolt to raise the tone of American politics...
Editor Erskine Gwynne, the man with aplomb, has a reputation for picaresque adventure. His encounter with Bride Peggy Hopkins Joyce (TIME, May 7) called attention to the fact that he is the expatriate nephew of the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, that his collegiate witticism undeniably sets the tone for his publishing venture, The Boulevardier. This magazine appears monthly, is written in English and provides the Parisian public with reading matter substantially equivalent to an informal combination of Town Topics and The New Yorker. Aping particularly the spirit of the last-named, it is not written for the old lady...
...Chicagoans, who were really worried about Chicago's condition, asked Mr. Strawn to preside over a discussion meeting, he irritated many of them by pooh-poohing blandly: "In 36 years in Chicago, 7 have never been held up, robbed or racketeered." Last week Mr. Strawn had changed his tone, perhaps because he did not have to add specifically to Chicago's embarrassment. He made Crime the main burthen of his retiring-president address. He even offered a neat classification of causes for Crime's since-the-War increase, as follows: "1) The increase and development...