Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Strike Me Pink" -- Majestic, 44th Street W.--An unbeatable trio in Hope Williams, who lends the Park Avenue tone, Jimmy Durante with the horselaugh and omnipresent schnozzlo, and Lupe Velez with eyes and things and sighs. Smooth music...
Three and a half years ago when the Philadelphia Orchestra started broadcasting, nothing so incensed Conductor Leopold Stokowski as the thought that mere radio engineers had the power to regulate his music, to tone down his surging crescendos, to increase the volume of his fragile pianissimos. After his first few broadcasts Stokowski determined to operate the controls himself. Radio authorities were beside themselves but Stokowski would hear no arguments. He was finally given a desk fitted with dials which he could twiddle to his heart's content. The wires were not connected. Hidden from sight was a working...
...Gang and the New Gang" were actually addressed to the Mr. and Mrs. Everybody of the first three chapters, the book would have little worth; for to them, to all but the few, its tone of complete scorn and sophisticated humor would be meaningless. To be sure, Mr. Lewis uses an imitation of Everybody's "langwidge," rich in "the missis" and "guys," and other expressions of the "Capone era," but his clever turns of phrase his pungent sarcasm are his own. It is to the intellectuals, to readers able to appreciate Lewis' habitual esoterica, that he writes, and his remarks...
Assuming a slightly choleric tone with a faint but perceptible reddening of the gills, John Bull has bellowed a loud protest at the Soviet Union for its jailing of four British subjects on charges of sabotage. Conservatives and reactionaries in the Oemmons gleefully welcomed the pretext to indulge in verbal Bolshevik-baiting, dwelling fervidly on the wicked OGPU and its modern inquisition tendencies. Threats to cancel lrade and diplomatic relations with Russia are noised about. Meanwhile Russia has announced her intention to go through with the trial...
Apparently unscathed by the vagaries of finance. The Colophon continues on its leisurely way as a publication of more than ordinary distinction. Aristocratic in tone and appearance, catering as it does to la limited number of booklovers, it fulfills its function adequately. In Part XII for the first quarter of 1933 one notes especially the high standard of craftsmanship and typographic excellence, an excellence that is already a tradition with the Colophon...