Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...youth meant milk obtained from cows who grew up in a pasture. Quite frankly the Vagabond is sorry about this, but in the interests of truth he is forced to admit his ignorance. He never for a moment held the specious hope that this sad trifle would tone up his column. At any rate he is going to hear about Pasteur...
...Swift, Rufus Cutler Dawes, Harold Fowler McCormick, Conductor Stock. Pianist Josef Hofmann was playing two blocks away but a good-sized audience came to hear Rosenstein, heartily applauded his poise throughout a difficult program, his accurate speed in Tartini's Devil's Trill Sonata, his purity of tone enhanced by a $20,000 Stradivarius lent him for the occasion...
...leather on the gritty paving stones in an attempt to keep the fire of life flaming high. He toyed with the idea of seeing the Red Sox, but then they always lose. He wandered up to the Treasure Room and found only two students talking in an excessively loud tone about the rate of subway fares out to Dorchester. Coming out of Widener he espied University Hall and a bright shaft of hope entered the barren wilderness of his soul. The publicity office. They might tell him something of interest. But in response to his query for news he received...
...game" of Adolf Hitler, as some German correspondents reported last week, is to tone down his Gang, moderate his policies and try to get one or more Fascists into the next German Cabinet. There is danger, indeed great likelihood, that many disgruntled Fascist gangsters-toughs who like direct action-will hire out to the Communist gangs. Such men see no sense in the only action Leader Hitler took last week against President Hindenburg's gag decree: he hired lawyers, had them get ready to bring suit on the ground that the gag is unconstitutional...
...Monkey Wife Author John Collier has written a more forthright satire than did David Garnett in Lady Into Fox, but the tone of the two books is similar. You may be shocked by some of Author Collier's implications; never by what he says. Nothing is here for tears; plenty for a smile...