Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statement of great truths. The Democratic Press found it vague, uninspired and-with its promises of economy plus adequate relief, of peace for business plus war on monopolies, of increased farm exports plus decreased farm imports-as inconsistent as the Republican platform. Impartial observers were impressed by the temperate tone in which Alf Landon attacked New Deal performance, the forthright manner in which he espoused much of the New Deal program.- Citizens who expected a summons to a holy crusade against Franklin Roosevelt and all his works were flatly disappointed...
...Star team, Roy Roberts and Lacy Haynes, who put the Kansas Governor into the running originally and now pack the greatest influence with him. Theirs will be whatever fame or blame accrues to the G. O. P.'s strategy on Nov. 3. Yet smart newshawks who compared the tone of Nominee Landon's acceptance speech last week with the tone of You And I-And Roosevelt did not underrate the position of Charlie Taft in the Topeka setup. Officially this Ohio middle-of-the-roader is supposed to advise the nominee and his campaign strategists only on relief...
...famed Mackinac Race from Chicago up Lake Michigan, through hazardous Mackinac Straits to Mackinac Island. Sailing the 331-mile course and due to finish this week was the largest (42) fleet of yachts ever to participate. On hand to greet the winner were Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone, Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow and Harry M. Daugherty...
...wild boar at the hunting lodge of Poland's President. Within 24 hours the German Press, which had been lauding Nose-Thumber Greiser, slued around. It was suddenly discovered-or at least printed-that Adolf Hitler had been "furious" about the crude nose-thumbing, so lacking in "good tone." Thus rapped, Danzig's Greiser made most conciliatory and reassuring declarations to the Polish representative in Danzig, left spunky little Warsaw more than ever convinced that the way to deal with a Nazi is to smack him first...
Even readers who noted Aldous Huxley's increasing seriousness could hardly be prepared for the calm didactic tone with which Eyeless in Gaza begins. The title comes from Milton's line, "Eyeless in Gaza, at the mill, with slaves," and the author announces his story as that of "a number of attempts to achieve liberty." The central character's life, Huxley says, shows "how easy it is for a man, by nature gentle, sensitive and without consuming passions, to be betrayed by weakness and evasion into disgraceful acts pregnant with the worst consequences." Eye-fass in Gaza...