Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gloom of the newsman's treatise comes a lecture by Sir Frederick Whyte on the prospects of future international cooperation. The lecture was delivered and published under the auspices of the Milton Academy foundation, and in spite of Sir Frederick's post as Political Adviser to China, his tone is mild and historical. All this was done far more ably by Gilbert Murray in "The Ordeal of the Present Generation," with a keener and more tempered philosophical approach to the problem of nationalism and its justifications, but, as a lecturer, Sir Frederick has evidently many charms. One might have wished...
...editor of La Scinana (probably the filthiest publication in the world, and. sad to say, is under the protection of the United States of America: through the influence of a very powerful American insurance company) had its editor, Carbo, Sergio Carbo, been similarly destroyed, several years ago, the moral tone of every last child in Cuba would have been spared the infamous pollution that Carbo has fouled its receptive mind with; so insidiously degrading and degenerate, that no wholesome minded man can have any conception of. La Scinana has polluted the National mind of Cuba, from her marble palaces...
...years on end we at Gimbels have been thinking that we were telling the truth. . . . But what we have been telling was, so to speak, 'commercial truth'. . . . We told you that a certain portable phonograph was light, that it had a good tone. carried so many records, came in several colors, and was very inexpensive. Those statements were absolutely accurate. We failed to tell you that because the phonograph was light and was inexpensive, the motor was not strong enough to give more than a few seasons' wear. Hereafter we will tell you this. In other words...
...support. Polity is less sensational, farther removed from the meretricious mens Americans which finds its nourishment in such journals as the successful Time and leaves the American Mercury to slide into the quiet tenor of bankruptcy. Perhaps Polity can afford the limitation on popularity which its mild and legal tone must impose. It has, at any rate, begun bravely, and were its book reviews to be elevated to the high level of its featured articles, it would have earned an even clearer title to merit in the rather private field its editors have chosen...
...like being there in a painfully realistic sense. Without depending very much on local color (letters, newspaper paragraphs), Authoress Herbst's story establishes its eyewitness character by almost continuous "indirect discourse," shifting its overheard speakers as the scene shifts but never losing its Nineteenth-Century tone of voice. Pity Is Not Enough is so achingly true to life that some readers may find it too drab for comfort; those who persevere to the end will admit that the title is well-chosen...