Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radiation in the body. The adrenal glands produce the short, sudden energy of an outburst of temper, anger or rage. The thyroid gland controls the steady, long-time radiation necessary to the body's growth and performance. "Freed electrons charge up the cells; charged up cells cause muscle tone or muscle energy in nerve cells, such as the brain. Thus emotional and nerve activity is created...
...will begin at 5.30 o'clock on Wednesday, June 20, with the Parade of Graduates, led by the Chief Marshal of the Class of 1908, John Richardson of Boston. This is to be followed by the Ivy Oration, delivered by S. H. Stackpole '33. The oration will set the tone of the Exercises which, in contrast to the serious nature of Commencement, is intended to be somewhat light and frivolous...
...foster-father, George Arliss is to be preferred to Maurice Chevalier (see above) on several counts. Instead of sticking out his under lip and singing, he pulls down his upper lip and speaks, in a dry tone, with perfect diction. Chevalier's picture emphasizes the good effects of dissipation; the lesson in the Arliss cinema is about the advantages of sobriety and the respect which children owe their elders. The Working Man, like most Arliss vehicles. has charm as well as respectability; if Mr. Arliss is too definitely of the old school. Bette Davis is certainly of a different...
Earnest Heminwgay contributes the last of a series of stories to this issue of Scribners, improving, as before, the general tone of the copy. The story, "Give Us a Prescription, Doctor," is laid in a hospital in the Southwest. From amidst a faint susurrus of hospital noises, broken English, and the squawling of a patient's radio, ideas emerge with a morbid and startling clarity; much as one may question Mr. Hemingway's philosophy, he cannot help admiring the technical ability and power which enables him to present it so vigorously and subtly. In the present instance, however, the effect...
Much possessed by Death, like Elizabethan John Webster but not to such a pitch, Faulkner's poetic tone of voice is more reminiscent of other poets, notably A. E. Housman. than of his own nightmarishly poetic prose...