Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weed out sweatshops; jacked up the Labor Statistics Bureau by appointing able Isador Lubin of Brookings Institute as its chief; secured the services of Charles Wyzanski Jr., onetime editor of the Harvard Law Review, as her solicitor. By her non-political appointments she has done much to raise the tone of her department from the low level to which it had dropped under her immediate predecessor. Miss Perkins' whole career has been a training for her Cabinet job. She was born in Boston 51 years ago. She was graduated from Mt. Holyoke College in 1902. She worked under Jane...
Like so much featherbrained Paris fun which leads on to the fashion, the mode started with a Mae West Party given on the platform restaurant of the Eiffel Tower by Mrs. (not Mme.J Denys Trefusis. She is by birth one of those Keppels who keep up the tone of British aristocracy. Despite, or perhaps because of, their proud Dutch blood, the Keppels produced two grooms-in-waiting to Queen Victoria, an extra equerry to King Edward and a Master of the Household for King George -not to mention Mrs. Trefusis. To her Mae West party went the Prince of Wales...
...Return is bare enough in outline. Grandpa pretends to be suffering from senile dementia, uses the three doctors of the county insane board as witnesses to a new will in which he leaves the farm to his granddaughter. She falls in love with young Guy Crane (Franchot Tone) whose land lies next to Storrhaven but there is nothing to be done about it because neither she nor Guy want to hurt Guy's wife. At the end of the story, Grandpa is dead, Guy is going East to teach, Louise is staying on at Storrhaven...
Commodity Dollar. That night Secretary Hull was able to read to the Conference a second Roosevelt pronouncement so courteous in tone that the Continentals, whose feathers had been badly ruffled by what they considered the President's rude language and dictatorial air in his first message, were perceptibly smoothed down. Not retreating one inch. Mr. Roosevelt again refused gold stabilization between currencies but in effect persuasively invited the world to join the U. S. on a standard of managed currency and commodity money. "Revaluation of the dollar in terms of American commodities," he wrote, "is an end from which...
...like Constance Bennett in Bed of Roses and Jean Harlow in Hold Your Man, is an alumna of the reformatory but she has a law-abiding nature. When aiding her accomplice Leo (Ricardo Cortez) to rob a cabaret, she saved a handsome young patrician named Tom Mannering Jr. (Franchot Tone) from being murdered. He rewards her with a job in his law office. She is already affianced to her employer when sent to a jail for a crime that she committed long before. Cinema stories by Anita Loos, of which this is one and Hold Your Man another, have...