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Word: tone (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...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...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 2/24/1939 | See Source »

...Hollywood divorce suit of the week: Joan Crawford v. Franchot Tone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shorts: Feb. 20, 1939 | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 13, 1939 | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jonah | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: February Records | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

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