Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opera singers in at least 95% of his intonations; that the vibrato of these singers consists of a pitch oscillation around the heard pitch averaging about one-half musical step in extent; that it also expresses itself in loudness and timbre pulsations; that one-half of the best song tones pulsate at the rate of between five and seven times per second; that the pulsations do not vary greatly with emotional tone or register: that it expresses one of the natural traits of the musical organism, giving mellowness, richness, and flexibility to the tone; that it is present in primitive...
...Chaucer wrote it, Professor Krapp is as poetic as professorially possible. Chaucer was not always perfectly smooth; neither is Professor Krapp. Although some will still rather read Chaucer than any "translation" of him, a great many present-day readers will prefer Krapp. By & large the "translation" faithfully preserves the tone of the original -slyly ingenuous, disarmingly matter-of-fact. The story of Troilus & Cressida, which Chaucer cribbed from Boccaccio's Il Filostrato, will never be old-fashioned or out-of-date. Troilus. a younger son of King Priam of Troy, falls head over heels in love with Cressida...
...composed of three onetime reporters-Col. Louis McHenry Howe, Stephen T. Early and Marvin Hunter McIntyre. The next President is determined to get a better "press" than his predecessor. White House secretaries, buffers between the President and the public, have the power to set an administration's tone with the Washington correspondents, who largely help make or break their Chief...
...wife? "Give heed, therefore, to the sage patriotic dear ladies and remember that the capitol of mighty Rome was at one time saved by the cackling of her faithful geese." When he went to the U. S. consulate in Berlin for his visa, Dr. Einstein's tone changed after answering several questions. "I am not going because I desire to visit somebody but because I have been invited'' (to teach at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton...
Between Mr. Adams' two statements there is something of a contradiction: the youthful, galliard tone is decidedly something extra in Rub life, supplied from a foreign source. Like an amoeba, the Sanhedrim that draws up Boston social lists reaches out long pseudopodia to Cambridge, absorbing whatever it wants in the ways of male sustenance, and rejecting the rest. So the young roam through their pleasures and palaces quite separately from the old, and it is the young who usually usurp the front pages of the society sections. Relegation of the middle-aged, and increased respect for the goings...