Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that time neither Hitler nor Hindenburg knew what the other was going to say. They quarreled on their feet for 15 minutes. Handsome Adolf cheekily demanded that he be made Chancellor "with precisely the same power that Mussolini exercised after the march on Rome!" Old Paul replied in the tone of a Prussian school-teacher lecturing an urchin. He is said to have actually used the words, "If you don't behave, I'll rap your fingers!" Last week Germany's master intrigants took care that when President von Hindenburg inevitably summoned Adolf Hitler (as the leader of Germany...
...them. The subscription rate was dropped with the hope of increasing the circulation; the Board entered combinations with other publications and constituted itself a subscription agent; tailoring contracts were sold for a tenant; a new Cafe was opened. Finally, readers had begun to observe a radical improvement in the tone and quality of the Lampoon's humor...
Autobiographies almost invariably contain an apology; some have little else. In Earth Horizon Mary Austin's apology, never explicit, is to be found in her generally defiant tone. "I don't see why it should be so much the literary mode just now to pretend that ideas are not intrinsically exciting and that one's own life isn't interesting to one's self." Hiding her personal pronoun behind her name, she writes of herself sometimes as 'T." some-times as ''Mary." The rising generation may find little to attract them...
...when it reasons: "The populace makes mistakes in English; the populace is good; therefore mistakes are good." The American version of the English tongue is fast losing all the pleasant qualities that make the pages of the Spectator and of Dickens mellow and stimulating. It has acquired a raucous tone, journalistic and barbarous. Balanced periods have disappeared even from legislative oratory, the hasty precision of modernity has killed leisurely and reflective style. These faults may be laid at the door of American classrooms, where teachers are inculcating "a feeling of world solidarity," and forgetting that the secret of teaching people...
...undergraduate editors. The aim of the Critic's board will be to express all shades of opinion, and will shun a literary, highly intellectual flavor. The monthly evidently purposes to be in the thick of the battle, printing every side of the issues discussed, avoiding an ex cathedra tone...