Word: tone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they [the Baptists]are poor people, and those among them who acquire property tend, like the rich Methodists, to ooze into the Protestant Episcopal Church, which is fashionable everywhere in the Republic save in rural New England." In such brazen tone he went his way. "The Baptists say they have 8,000,000 members in the United States. This includes 3,000,000 colored brethren, who are recognized as having souls but are not allowed to come to white churches." Repeatedly he jabbed at foot-washing, that Baptist gesture of humility. He made phrases: ". . . the rank and file keep...
...article in TIME, Jan. 4, 1926, p. 23, entitled " At Madras" is just a little inaccurate in facts and wholly inappropriate in tone. I count on your exceptional courage in printing corrections to set your readers right...
...face pleasanter to the eye. As to delights beyond the eye and finger-tips, the new Advocate seems to carry behind it a surer authority and a genuine masculinity. Abandoning abstraction, the creation of several new departments, the brightening up of the old, and a kind of general tone of health and vigor begins to call the languid clubman and the lily-fingered litterateur from their opposite poles and give them a common interest in an important undergraduate occurrence...
...Liberty Bell began to ring, for the first time since 1835 when it rang John Marshall to his grave and cracked?rang with about 80% of its former tone volume. Station WIP broadcast its clangor. The Liberty Bell rang again, rang in the New Year of 1926, rang in the 150th year since the signing of the famed Declaration, rang in the year in which Philadelphia plans to hold an exposition, a sesquicentennial...
Those who have accused Mr. John D. Rockefeller Jr. of inconsiderateness, selfishness, because the loud though melodious tones of the carillon which he donated to the Park Avenue Baptist Church disturbed their holiday slumbers (TIME, Dec. 7) do not number among them August Heckscher, philanthropist. Moved to characteristic benignancy by Mr. Rockefeller's carillon, Mr. Heckscher made a proposal to the Mayor of New York. He would like to give a carillon to the city. Indeed, if the city would build a tower for the purpose in Central Park, he would order the bells forthwith. He said: "The flexibility...