Word: tone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know how many industries depend on partly manufactured goods and raw materials ; we shall take no step without consultation with those industries. If any monopolies result they will be monopolies at home, and we can deal with them." More remarkable than his policy was the improved tone of his oratory. No longer did he stress his inability as a phrasemaker, but burst into floods of forceful phrases which caused surprise to some and to others a suspicion that his cousin, Rudyard Kipling, had had a hand in framing his speeches...
There are three things which "stick flery off" in the most casual perusal of the message: its clarity and straight forwardness, its lack of any very new or striking suggestion, and the difference of its tone in regard to domestic and to foreign policy. In the first two respects the President's message is remarkably in accord with the general public's estimate of the man. President Coolidge has been considered stable, carefully conservative, practical in a business way, in fact a good representative of the Grand Old Party; and his message bears this out. He is following President Harding...
...points M. Poincaré's speech was almost defiant in tone. Said he: "If tomorrow we have to defend our security, we will not have to wait the good pleasure of any one. . . . Our security is above all assured by consolidation of the territories which we occupy. As long as Germany does not show herself pacific, we will remain on our guard. As long as the Treaty has not been entirely fulfilled, we will not abandon the left bank of the Rhine. . . . We would have liked to have had the conference of Ambassadors demand at once either extradition...
...been the accepted axiom that Yale graduates are to be accorded the palm over Harvard men in American literature. It is an axiom with which I disagree--unless a more prolific output and more vociferous claquing can be weighed in the balance with quiet, individual progress and depth of tone. Mr. Pulsifer, as a Harvard graduate, comes to my rescue very opportunely...
...will be done this week when the team reaches the climax of its season. That is a problem, however, for the coaches alone. What the undergraduate body can do tonight at the Union, tomorrow at the field, and Saturday at the game, is to show, in no uncertain tone, that it too has the will...