Word: tone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would be like a game of button, button. Gossip would take on an important tone that is lacking when it is concerned only with the Watch and Ward society and the Lampoon's difficulties. And the undergraduate body would throw its academic worries into a corner, and depart to be joyous, and return undisappointed, and the bored way in which the College accepts the recess that is doled out to it would be forever replaced by an abiding sense, however, false, that they had really got something for nothing...
...second group be tenors did some excellent singing it he early English numbers by Thomas Weeks and Thomas Morley. The Gusta lolst arrangements of three Hindu chorines were as dull as the other work a Holst which we have heard. The send of these however, was sung with excellent tone and would have been shoutedly a less experienced group. A worst be said for W. B. Wood's excellent work in the third of these hymns...
...Administration news organs throughout the U. S. reported in a tone of irony bordering upon sarcasm that the President considers the League's invitation most courteous. They positively asserted that the President would refuse this invitation, since he indicated clearly that the U. S. Government expects to deal with each of the Court-adherent states separately. The President further indicated that the Senate's reservations must be accepted or rejected as they stand...
...Ward's intention to destroy any mental institutions and set up new ones. The tone of raillery adopted throughout is merely "to make the mystery vivid," and "awareness of thobbing" is all that is urged upon the reader. The author is so stuffed-to-the-ears with quotable information on his vast array of thobbers that the moderately learned will make heavy weather of his pages if they try to read all. But trust the author of Evolution for John Doe to make his main point clear and entertaining. Leave it to the erudite to plough through the whole book...
...succeeding series of operatic Italian arias presented new opportunities for display of interpretation and technique. Indeed, had M. Marcoux not possessed a delightful surety of tone combined with extreme simplicity of manner, the widely varied program might have been colored with a suggestion of braveura...