Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Harvard is far from perfect, University officials will find few constructive ideas in former Professor Lake's recent tirade on American education. Indeed, the querulous tone of his criticism seems more indicative of personal resentment of Harvard's belated censure of his conduct than of any real interest in the educational process. Possibly, too, Mr. Lake was impressing Brown University with his qualifications for the chair of Comparative Literature...
...cinema idol were no particular recommendation. But they found before the performance was over that a virile figure was not Kiepura's only asset. Tall, handsome Kiepura overacted at times, flopped melodramatically upon the prostrate corpse of Mimi. But his singing was agreeably robust, warm in tone quality. Applauding oldsters agreed that there was nothing the matter with Kiepura's diaphragm...
...labor papers are poor reading compared with the secular press, are edited by men with more zeal than talent. However, in the Roosevelt era, over 75 new labor papers have been started, and American Newspaper Guildsmen. taking an active part in labor affairs, have locally improved the tone of the labor press by setting an example and lending it professional talent...
William Herndon's life of Lincoln is one of the great neglected books of U. S. literature. It belongs with the best biographies by virtue of its accuracy, its almost unique tone that manages to combine veneration for a great man with shrewd understanding of a human being. But in addition to these qualities, Herndon's Lincoln is a document as essentially American as Whitman's poems, not only in its grasp of the tough frontier world in which Lincoln grew, but in its belief in U. S. democracy, its recognition of democracy's weaknesses...
Although too voceriferous and heedless of parliamentary form, America's little business men displayed in the recent Washington conference a shrewd understanding of government. In their report to the President, the tone of which, but not the sentiment, was modified by the Resolutions Committee and Secretary Roper, they showed that neither the depression, recession, nor world unrest has upset their balance and destroyed the American's most characteristic virtue: his common sense. Their suggestions, by no means perfect and complete, seem to crystallize public opinion as well as any other twenty-three remedial proposals have done...