Word: tone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...daughter for not "getting something on paper" which might serve as evidence in a breach of promise suit. The scene is pure farce of the most extravagant kind and tolerably funny. But it is in keeping neither with the character of the shrewd fortune-hunting woman nor with the tone of the play as a whole. The closing speech where Lady Remenham, a close friend of the family, on being informed of the broken engagement, remarks "Geoffrey, dear, tell them to put up my carriage, I shall stay to lunch"-admirably characterizing as it is-sets the pitch...
...same necessity which has forced German students to abandon any prewar notions of the degradation of working-a-way through college, has led them to a thorough distaste for the policies and forces which brought about the present state of affairs in Germany. The whole tone of "Genug und Gut" is far more wholesome and indicates a complete face-about from the war-time, "Ich und Gott." If the powerful new student organizations are sincere in their efforts and carry their ideas into effect throughout the nation, the future of Germany rests secure in safe and moderate hands...
...these same graduates are often the leaders in the widespread criticism of American Colleges, because the good old days of the Harvard pump and coal grates are passed. In a similar tone newspapers dwell on "the strange sumptuary regulations forbidding, not the keeping of dog or gun in a student's room, but the bringing of a student's automobile within the classic shades...
...sins of the younger generation, and especially of college students, have long been a subject for popular discussion; but this year the standard of pessimism has been relatively low. Perhaps moralists have exhausted themselves with criticism of the flapper; for the latest comment is friendly and hopeful in tone. In an editorial entitled "Real College Students", the New York Times suggests that the American college is not all that it should be, and that the fault lies with the undergraduate. It points out a "decline within the last generation in the dominant tone of the student body" and goes...
...Gogorza brings to the concert stage a dignity and continence which cannot but inspire a respect for his art. With a voice of fine natural warmth and vividness of expression, his perfect technique and easy control of tone conveys, to the listener impressions of restraint and perfect command of his art. With a voice smooth though not weak, powerful though never forced, he gave a program which evinced catholicity of taste and true musicianship. Commencing with eighteenth century music of Gluck and Handel, he sang three songs of Griffes, Huhn's "Invictus". (the words are Henley's) and various French...