Word: tone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...return to character and an abandonment of the continuous satirical description of American mudnats and tenement houses. Perhaps American life might be better if just that were done. Instead of this continued Menchenistic harping upon the single string of defects of m lieu there might be the stronger tone of accomplished character development...
...opening of the French automobile salon last week in Paris attracted a record first day attendance, despite the conservative tone of the display as a whole...
...author seems to take an obscure pride in telling things that other people would have been careful to leave unsaid. He is almost proud of the small slips from grace that filled his boyhood; the tone of the whole thing reminds one of Jean Jacques' "Confessions," Jess startling, of course, but put together with the same intentional candor...
Whether or not the labor leaders perceived the futility of this course is a question. At any rate, the whole tone of labor has changed. With its increasing power, manifested by such an organization as the Federation, with the increasing modification of its radical conceptions, Labor has seen the danger of communism and has opposed it. "We regard the Soviet political regime as the most unscrupulous, most anti-social and most menacing institution in the world today" is the unanimous declaration of the American Federation, voiced in the same document which contains a pledge of unswerving loyalty to American principles...
...After a moment of silence, the youth evidently the spokesman, inquired in a suspicion tone, What's the Atlantic Ocean...