Word: tone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conventions are over, and until the results of the Fall's election as far as they will affect trade can be intelligently fore cast. With the Democratic candi date still unknown, both "platforms" yet unannounced, and the seriousness of La Follette's third party gesture not clearly determined, a tone of hesitation in the markets is quite natural...
Then you will learn that a man of intelligence will have trouble getting that bourgeois yet apocalyptic tone affected by all newspapers. Cheerfulness will keep breaking through on you, and you'll get sick of the chronique scandalous of the news columns and the common scolding of the editorials...
Then the "Gold Banders" launched into von Suppe's overture, Light Cavalry. And Stokowski began to get what he wanted. "I wanted the tone-color to sound like gold," he explained to the audience. "I wanted the band to look like gold?the golden, brazen look of sunlight...
...central theme of the sessions, as is usually the case, was an unqualified demand for the "open shop," for which the N. M. A. has been fighting for years. Yet there were many interesting side issues, such as sympathy for Japan for the recent earthquake, and regret at the tone of Congress' recent stand on Japanese immigration. Apart from a general condemnation of "politicians", Gifford Pinchot was especially attacked as "not the only political coward in the country" and the chief reason for the high price of anthracite coal...
...Both the tone and the subject matter of the Columbia committee's letter compare most favorably with the widely criticized "B. Y. O." note recently sent out by the president of the Associated Harvard Clubs. As Mr. H. H. Noyes very justly pointed out in an open letter some time ago, now is scarcely the time for university alumni, who are frequently termed the leaders of the common wealth, to set a general example of unrestrained conviviality in regard to the prohibition laws. It is quite possible, though perhaps hardly charitable, to suppose that had the Columbia committee not retained...