Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...covered with a shower of dust from above so that you couldn't tell whether I was very badly tanned from my ride in the barge or just plain Topsy." Her final remark was in Italian, or perhaps it was Spanish. But she said it in such a disarming tone of voice that, whatever the meaning might have been, didn't matter...
...mind there is a picture of America, anxious to maintain abroad its reputation for high moral tone, at the same time sneaking around the corner to have a cocktall. I feel as do many that the Eighteenth Amendment should be repealed as the root of the whole trouble. It is called a 'noble experiment', but a constitution should contain broad statements of general policy, not experiments...
...left and looking at the spectator, wearing a greenish black cloak, a cap of the same colour with a yellow band, and a limp pleated collar. His hair falls in curls over his shoulders, the full light coming almost from the front with a brown background, fairly light in tone...
...Street of Chance" is probably the first underworld picture, (and there have been many of them lately), which does not try to reach its climax in the midst of pistol shots, machine gun fire and the scream of police sirens. The whole tone of the movie is quiet efficiency, whether it involves taking a hundred thousand dollars from a sucker at the gaming table or in taking an obstreperous colleague for a ride...
...quarter-tone piano-the piano of tomorrow, according to Pianist Earth-which amazed. Pianist Earth, young Leipsic-born U. S. citizen, long felt himself limited by the conventional twelve-tone scale (in the keyboard the seven white full tones and the five black half tones). With the help of one George L. Weitz and the Baldwin Piano Co. he in vented a quarter-tone instrument which has a second keyboard, is double the thick ness of the standard piano, has to be played from an extra high stool. He wrote music for it (North Wind, Shadows of a Cathe dral...