Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Allow me, however, to correct one statement in your story which mars its generally fair tone...
...face hung slack as a bloodhound's jowls. Anna, his wife, "was frantic." He went to bed at once. Neurologists tickled him with electric currents, and an orthopedist stripped his face in a brace. This supported his facial muscles until the nerves recovered and took charge of muscular tone. After three and a half weeks Dr. Fishbein recovered with no residual grimace...
Revolting as Lulu's career is in outline, Composer Berg dressed it in music too peculiar and powerful to be discounted. Throughout he used the twelve-tone scale he learned from Arnold Schönberg, to whom the opera is dedicated. Song forms are woven in so cunningly as not to be obtrusive. A sonata form announces the appearance of Dr. Schön; a rondo suggests his son. The whole orchestra converses gruesomely over one death, lyrically pleads when the composer wanted sympathy for his heroine, strikes an ugly dissonance of shrieking brasses when she is murdered...
Because "noise travels long distances", rowdy Vassar girls must tone down voices and radios, since open windows is a "spring habit". Naked legs are shocking, it was decided, in the dining hall, in Arlington and Poughkeepsie...
Died. Frederic Eugene Ives, Si, inventor (in 1886) of the half-tone engraving process that made possible the reproduction of photographs in newsprints; of chronic nephritis and myocarditis; in Philadelphia...