Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hrer Hitler had agreed to delete from Mein Kampf certain uncomplimentary references in which France was described as a "bastardized, negroid" country, an "eternal danger to the white race of Europe." an "enemy-to-the-death of the German people." There were also suggestions that France in turn might tone down the inscriptions on some World War monuments which bitterly refer to the "ravages of Huns...
...announced that he was commemorating the 50th anniversary of his U. S. debut. But his first Manhattan appearance of the season, which drew throngs to Carnegie Hall, was billed as just another concert. Concertgoers who went to hear him had long since ceased to expect prodigies of technique or tone from 63-year-old Kreisler. What they expected, and got, was an afternoon of leisurely, charming, old-school fiddling such as only Fritz Kreisler can put on. Kreisler's playing is to the exact, nervous fiddling of today what a Kentucky colonel's drawl is to the feverish...
With Senator Berry as chairman of its board of directors, the Times took on a strong anti-New Deal tone. This seemed to mean that Democrat Berry, who was a loud New Dealer until he was discredited for trying to collect $1,600,000 from TVA for some questionable marble claims, was ready to make an entirely fresh start in Tennessee politics...
...instrument Pillney uses is an exact reproduction of an old harpsichord. Unlike the piano, the harpsichord, the tone of which is suggestive of the guitar, has no hammers and its strings are plucked with little quills...
...tone of George Fielding Eliot's The Ramparts We Watch is one of guarded optimism. He says that the U. S. needs a military and naval force able to defend Canada and South America against the combined attacks of Germany, Italy and Japan. But this need, which he considers urgent, does not demand an enormous expansion of the army and navy, does not require industrial mobilization, with regimentation of labor, and paralyzing control of business...