Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assiduously to prevent the British Lion from roaring or showing its teeth as Mussolini twists its tail," cabled United Press last week from London. "Within the limits of freedom of the press prevailing in Britain, where there is no censorship, authorities are trying to modulate the openly anti-Italian tone in some leading newspapers. . . . The Cabinet . . . discussed the . . . situation. . . . Authorities sought tonight to restrain British newspapers and news agencies from publishing information likely to incite further the anger of Premier Benito Mussolini...
...living. Eugene Gallatin was definitely one of the lads in the days of pearl-button reefers and horse-headed canes. A member of the swank Union Club for many years, he was founder, remains president of the moribund Motor-Car Touring Society, whose object was to bring a tone of dashing sportsmanship to the horseless carriage...
This complicated but well-related episode is the beginning of a kind of melodrama which the cinema can tell superbly, and which it recently has been neglecting. No effort is made to tone down characters and incidents to the neat artistic patterns of the current vogue...
...Bruening said that the fundamental problems of democratic government are long and difficult of solution, and had been worked for unceasingly in Germany. Changing his tone, he observed that "they are easily solved under a totalitarian state," where no attempt is made to preserve the ideal of self-government...
...motor shrieked to a stop. The gals spun round in their seats in fury and in a tone of voice that defies description screamed, "What do you mean, Radcliffe...