Word: tone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instrument is the viola. Few lay citizens know just what the viola is. It is a member of the viol family, lying midway between the violin and the violoncello. In appearance it is nothing more than a large violin, played in the customary position for the violin. Its tone is very distinctive, deeper, mellower and moodier than that of the violin. Its lack lies in variety. It does not have the alternate darkness and brightness of the violin or the alternate bass strength and majesty and tenor fervor of the violoncello, but preserves a characteristic romantic melancholy throughout...
...dignified and important instrument, one well fitted to satisfy the highest artistic demands of music. The Society has a band of one hundred expert players, who render in grandiose style arrangements of the compositions of the great composers. Listeners at the Berlin concert commented admiringly on the great, noble tone of the bass mandolins-almost organlike in richness-which moved in stately measures beneath the delicate, tintillating lacework of the smaller instruments...
...opposite extreme of poor taste was exemplified by another Manhattan paper, The New York Call (Socialist) which assumed a tone not common even in the rabidly Democratic press: "HARDING, JOCKEYED TO TOP, DIED AT LOW EBB OF CAREER . . . GENIAL HANDSHAKER WRECKED BY BURDEN TOO HEAVY...
...first session of the Lausanne Conference met at Lausanne, Switzerland, on November 20, 1922. The Allies were obliged to alter their tone to the Turks, because Turkey appeared before them as a conqueror. The Allies, led by the domineering Lord Curzon, British plenipotentiary to the Conference, merely dropped the form of their claims but "held rigidly to the substance. Turkey was told to go home and sign the treaty. She was warned not to break the peace, and with this final admonition the Allied delegates entered their wagon-lits and steamed...
...wonderful proportions. Today newspapers run special radio supplements, and throughout the country countless numbers of people " tune in" every evening, and pick up what diverting sounds they can through the air. The programs broadcast were at first very fine, especially in the way of music. The radio transmits tone with a great fidelity, and important singers and instrumentalists were glad to perform for the new wonder. Philosophers saw splendid things for music in this nightly projection of high refinements of the art into the innumerable radio-owning homes of non-concert-going people. But the radio programs have sadly deteriorated...