Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most of the letters, said President Scott, were modest in tone. But by inference those 100 admitted they were prodigious and precocious. Girls can be superior too. Because 40% of the applicants were female, Northwestern will enroll six prodigious young girls in September, scrutinize them as carefully as the boys...
Thomas Love Peacock wrote the lines, though George Borrow might have written them. Wanderiuster Baerlein might have written them too. It is in this tone, rare in English literature, that he tells of his roamings in Transylvania...
...long as you let him talk," is well applied to him. Ernest Cossart is excellent as Colonel Tallboys; we wish, with him, to "bash." The Elderly Lady over the head, then extending to her our apologies, but never our regrets, so exasperatingly well has Minna Phillips caught her tone. Nor must we forget Leo G. Carroll as Private Meek, and the others who declaimed G. B. S.'s dogma in superb fashion...
...plot to a merciless synopsis, the Playgoer admits that he has exaggerated the element of horror. This element is sufficiently diluted in the actual showing to make more prominent other merits, such as the careful settings, imaginatively done, and the capable photography and camera-angles. There is a consistent tone to the piece, a tone that was lacking in "Frankenstein," with its weakening comedy interludes. The extravagance and absurdity of the plot is somehow reconciled by the opening scene sin the mountebank's tent, which set the key for shivery theatricality. Mirakle, showman that he is, can heap leer...
...main entrance lobbies have been executed in Crab Orchard stone, the surface of which was left in the same raw and untooled form as when taken from the deposit beds of Tennessee. This stone was carefully selected for colors, and, although every imaginable color is present, the predominating tone of the lobbies...