Word: tone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...striking Nationalist losses are of peculiar significance. Last spring, the leaders of the party proceeded to tone down their traditional white-hot pro-monarchist anti-Locarno and anti-Dawes plan program in order to enter the mild centre coalition cabinet, then formed by Dr. Marx (TIME, Feb. 7, 1927). By this compromise they apparently lost the confidence of almost half the Nationalist voters, who had had faith until then, that the monarchy might be restored in some modified form and that Germany might some day successfully buck against the Dawes Plan...
...confined my questioning to such decisions as affected the ballot-box fortunes of the Negro in Dixie, and in not one case did Senator Glass either (1) decline to comment; (2) ask me to treat anything he said as confidential; or (3) request me to tone down the fervent quality of his responses...
...tone them down. First, because it would have been unfair to quote him verbatim while he was irritable as a result of the nature of the subject and peeved because of the confinement consequent upon his sore...
Please do not think I am trying to pick a fight, I just want to condemn the general tone and contents of Henderson's letter as an unpatriotic utterance and say that there is no glory in patting a wife and mother on the back and saying: "Your son or husband died a hero." That does not bring them back. What good would it do for Coolidge to take a flight? He's not seeking publicity. He does not need it. He's known and loved throughout the world and I say this although...
...asked such a monster sum. He indicated pretty clearly what part he thought the railroad and lumber interests had played in the drafting of the provisions, which included purchase of rights-of-way as high as $75 per acre. "They shall not pass," said the President's tone of voice...