Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...south lawn behind the White House offices marched President Hoover, Statesman Stimson, Secretary of the Navy Adams, Senator Joseph Robinson. A naval and a military aide stood by as the President and the three members of the U. S. delegation at the London Conference ranged themselves before the Movie tone cameras. As the cranks began to turn, Statesman Stimson passed President Hoover a document, said: "Mr. President, I have the honor to hand you herewith the Treaty concluded at London. . . . I wish to thank you for the honor and privilege of participating in the Treaty." negotiation and conclusion...
...they march along shouldering small bolt-action rifles of the latest Italian Army type. To cut off the head of Marianne is, of course, to decapitate France. The fact that France and Italy quarreled at the London Naval Conference (TIME, Jan. 27 et seq.), coupled with the hostile tone the Italian Press has taken since, made French papers play up under biggest scare heads last week certain routine naval developments at home...
...ability to learn. He told how he had stood beside his small aquarium, blown a whistle, scattered food to the minnows. Soon, he said, they learned what the whistle meant, would rush to the top with gaping mouths whenever it was blown. Later he procured another whistle of lower tone. He would blow this, then spank the rising fish with a glass rod. Soon they learned the meaning of the new whistle, would cower at bottom when it was blown, but still come gaping to the surface when the food whistle blew...
Unique in its tone, The Sportsman is not for the ringside habitué, not for the occasional "hunter" who combs the hills once each year for a legal maximum bag of game, not for the bleacher authority on batting averages. Its rich illustrations depict gentlemen riders taking jumps handsomely: "Mr. Lewis Lacey . . . leads Mr. Hopping over the boards in the third match at Meadow Brook"; a priest blessing the hounds of Chagrin Valley Hunt Club before the chase...
...Beethoven, Brahms and Wagner have stayed his first loves, he has had time and bursts of enthusiasm for Stravinsky, Schönberg. Sibelius, Skriabin. He has been willing to experiment with a Thereminophone in his orchestra (TIME, Dec. 30), to encourage Hans Earth in his pioneering with the quarter-tone piano (TIME, March 3). His interest and energy have made him one of the world's great conductors. He may offend friends and audiences by his increasing arrogance but few have denied his tremendous musical genius...