Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Your half-apologetic tone in your article on Mrs. Simpson as Woman of the Year is the only redeeming feature of your choice...
Actually, Franklin Roosevelt had outsmarted not only the timid Republican minority but his own followers. His dispassionate tone, his modest admission of faults in NRA, his intimation that a constitutional amendment was not necessary were all mildly reasonable. He did not speak of making the Supreme Court keep step with New Deal aims but of bringing "legislative and judicial action into closer harmony." He did not demand, as he did in his horse & buggy declaration, that the Supreme Court swing into line, but said that the judiciary "is asked by the people to do its part in making democracy successful...
...Dealers had hastily proposed. The political opportunity for taking such measures may well be an adverse decision on the Wagner Labor Relations Act or similar New Deal measures. The Court, however, must now dread taking such a step far more than if the President had taken a threatening tone. For now the Court itself rather than the President will appear to be forcing the issue. By his message to Congress Franklin Roosevelt outflanked the position of the Supreme Court. If and when it chooses to mop it up, the job will be three-quarters done...
Captions under these pictorial features were written with an elementary terseness not unlike the style of the late great Arthur Brisbane (TIME, Jan. 4). Resulting journalistic tone throughout Look was reminiscent of the Hearst Sunday supplements, also of Bernarr Macfadden's dizzy, long-dead tabloid New York Evening Graphic...
Encouraging college aspirants to the screen, Miss Hepburn ejaculated, "Why, there are hundreds of actors and directors in Hollywood with university degrees." Franchot Tone and Fredric March were named as two Phi Beta Kappa actors. She asserted that college acting often gives the budding actor too high an opinion of himself and that every would-be star is due for a jolt when he realizes how hard it is to break...