Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grin surmounted by a pug nose. Later, over the traditional musician's supper--steak and French fries, this astonishing miss proceeded without the aid of any band to sing a style of lilting jazz with a sincerity seldom heard, and with a real singing voice--with the power and tone all there...
...Hollywood divorce suit of the week: Joan Crawford v. Franchot Tone...
...Money (sketches & lyrics by Nancy Hamilton, music by Morgan Lewis; produced by Gertrude Macy & Stanley Gilkey) is billed as an "intimate" revue. The authors, moreover, know what an intimate revue should be-crisp, topical, irreverent, with a small cast, an 11 o'clock curtain, a conversational tone, no green-and-purple spotlighting, no Bits of Old Baghdad...
...Danish religious press was undecided whether Author Tandrup was being satirical or only devoutly whimsical. U. S. readers will recognize the tone: that of Green Pastures. Essentially the tale is serious enough; its symbolism includes politics as well as religion. As for the humor of Jonah's situations, the original author appears to have been something of a humorist himself...
Deep Purple (Larry Clinton; Victor). Most earworthy handling of the torch-song-of-the-month-an old Peter de Rose tone poem shortened and given tongue...