Word: tone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...investigation was all anti-Republican in tone, what with Federal patronage having been Republican for eight years and the Senate investigators being mostly Democratic. So Postmaster General New asked to be heard. The Senators returned from digging up fresh dirt in Georgia, to hear some old dirt in Washington. Postmaster General New read letters and affidavits showing how postmasterships had been sold and levied upon in the Wilson days of 1917-20. The system, he implied, dated back to Civil War times and was common to both parties. Democrats demurred that the campaign contribution law had been changed since Wilson...
...became a composer after a brief, uproarious and distinguished career as a conductor; wrote tone poems which, in the U. S. at least, remain his most popular work. Of these, Don Juan is perhaps the most celebrated; Till Eulenspiegels Merry Pranks (one of the few genuinely comic bits of music ever created) frames in melody the "owl-glass" legends of a fantastic buffoon who once annoyed staunch German burghers; Death and Transfiguration is a profoundly magnificent effort to encompass a theme more holy than most which have engaged its author's attention...
...Finlandia", Symplionic Poem Sihelius "California", Tone Poem, Suggested by Scenes at the Fiesta in Santa Barbara (1927) Converse Victory Dance of the first Inhabitants--Spanish Padres and Explorers--The March of Civilization--Land of Poco Timepo--Invasion of the Gringos--Midnight at "ElPaseo" 1927 "Espana" Chubrier Overture to "Le Maschere" Mascagni "Molly on the Shore" Grainger "Pomp and Circumatance" Elgar
...Overman, North Carolina's junior Senator, protested. "The men who testified were responsible and high-toned," he said. But Senator Heflin, who yields to no man for responsibility or "high tone," roared...
Chief Judge John Philip Sousa of the National Band Concert, sponsored by the bureau at Joliet, had to listen last week while 27 bands comprising 2,000 high schoolers successively blared Finlandia, a stirring tone-poem of famed Finn Jean Sibelius. Although the genius of Sibelius has brought him a permanent subsidy from the Finnish government, he did not compose the national anthem: Maame Laulu ("The Song of our Country"), opus of Funns Bacius (composer) and Runeberg (poet...