Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mistake to believe that clicking the heels is the only proper deportment or that the man begins with the manual of arms. The well-known rough but hearty tone is not everywhere in place, especially in the company of women. There is no reason to feel that one is at all times in high boots, even when one is wearing laced shoes...
...slowly, was adjudged by Manhattaniles last week to be very near the real McCoy. The paintings on view were mostly done before his first successful Paris exhibition a year ago: small landscapes and still-lifes, drawn to look like what they are supposed to be, but designed in dark tone patterns as abstract as anything surrealist. Against straight surrealism Artist Tal-Coät has set his face. Says he: "Surrealists and modern abstractionists run the risk of producing nothing but a series of colored symbols." Rumored to be a protege of Gertrude Stein's, he has in fact...
Chester, Weir & Co. went into the White House smiling and came out smiling. But Lewis, Lamont & Co. went in grim and came out grimmer. One of the conferees reported that he had never heard anyone talk to President Roosevelt face to face in the tone that those men used...
...nation's six great regions at least one man. Only prerequisites: three years' experience, a Godspeed from the boss, a thirst for knowledge. When they go back to their jobs they will presumably be better equipped to serve them and their communities, generally raise the tone of the working press...
Last week, if he read Lewis' The Prodigal Parents, Granville Hicks must have been wondering again. A brief, inconsequential book, more typical of Lewis' choppy short stories than of his novels, The Prodigal Parents is notable only for the stern tone it adopts toward the Communist Party and for its sympathetic portrait of the type of U. S. businessman Lewis has previously satirized. The story revolves around the rebellion of Frederick William Cornplow, a plump, prosperous, middle-aged automobile dealer of Sachem Falls, N. Y., who is a dead ringer for Babbitt...