Word: tone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stresemann Retorts. Foreign Minister Stresemann ascended the Reichstag Tribune, delivered the Cabinet's rebuke to Il Benito with ponderous almost unemotional thoroughness: "The German Government must decline to reply to Premier Mussolini in a tone which is better suited to mass meetings than to diplomatic conversation with other nations...
...Church tower as a memorial to his mother, Laura Spelman Rockefeller.** This will be a great satisfaction and a tribute also, to Carillonneur Anton Brees, the Belgian, who has complained that the present height of this largest carillon in the world?? does not permit full effect to their marvelous tone beauty, that they should be at least 300 feet above ground. Certainly too their removal will satisfy many New Yorkers who criticised them for disturbing their Sunday morning sleeps and mopings (TIME...
...terrible, and from then on we stop counting. "Behind the Front" happens to be the second in the line of realistic war pictures, and as such it is reasonably competent. If only we hadn't seen "The Big Parade" first, this review might assume a lighter and happier tone...
...tone of the Associated Press despatches serve as a model of sportsmanlike conduct. The headlining of a poor decision by a linesman as an excuse for the defeat is scarcely in the best of taste, especially since an equally crucial judgement went against Suzanne. The future of America to triumph either morally or physically goes far to restore the French morale. For the second time in history, a tennis court is the rallying point of the nation...
...Judges Walter Henry Hall, professor of Church and Choral Music at Columbia University, Dr. Holies Daun, head of the department of musical educa-at New York University, and H. O. Osgood, associate editor of the Musical Courier put their heads together, added up points given on interpretation, ensemble, pitch, tone and diction, found that the Concordia Society of Wilkesbarre, Pa., under the direction of Professor Adolph Hanson had won first place, a point score of 273 out of a possible 300. Second came the Guido Chorus of Buffalo, N. Y., with a score...