Word: tone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enjoyed reading it. ... BUT-why in heaven's name did you print such an unpatriotic letter as that of Sidney Henderson of Chicago in regard to our excellent President's flight with Lindbergh? (TIME, April 9). In the first place, the letter was decidedly of a sarcastic tone; in the next place he dares to imply that Coolidge is lacking in moral courage and sportsmanship. I'd like to be near enough to Henderson to give him a poke in the nose! I'll bet Henderson has not taken an air-trip over to Paris more...
...such claim. His sketches are cut and dried, peppered sparsely with long-familiar anecdotes. His enthusiasm for every Jew has robbed him of his discrimination, defeated his own humble purpose of segregating them. Superlatives are plentiful as periods. Elman, for instance, "alone can produce that broad, wholesome, spiritual tone which is characteristic of his playing and is so representative of the spirit dominating the long-suffering sons and daughters of his race." His tone "has been accepted as the standard by which violinists are measured." Heifetz is "the greatest technical genius of the violin of the present day." Kreisler...
...Diederich was born in Hungary in 1884. His sculpture and iron work have a modernistic tone, and the long, slim lines of his figures convey admirably the idea of swift motion inherent in most of his works. His favorite subjects are taken from out-of-doors life especially of polo and hunting scenes, in which his speeding figures seem fairly to fly over the ground...
Just before Disraeli left the Prime Ministry in 1880 he struck definitely the tone of their correspondence thus: "Lord Beaconsfield, no longer in the sunset but in the twilight of existence, must encounter a life of anxiety and toil; but this, too, has its romance, when he remembers that he labors for the most gracious of beings...
...whiskey in one pocket, and an American Mercury in the other, has passed. Ideals are higher now. . . . This condition has come about largely by reason of the influence of young people. This generation is the best we ever have had. One young man, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, raised the tone of journalism 25% by his flights to Europe, and Mexico and Central America. And that is the effort of only one clean-minded American...