Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been no more successful than any other attempt to regiment sociability. In the abstract the ideal of making it possible for men of all stations and classes to mingle, even if only with the measured cordiality of a Friday evening at the Somerset, has a certain nobility of tone which permits no contradiction. As it has worked out, whether the fault of University Hall or the student body, more hostility and disappointment than conviviality have resulted...
...Grace Adams East of Berkeley, Calif, is a sure mistress of the trumpet, which she first took up to develop breath control when she thought seriously of becoming a singer. She proved her feeling for tone last week with Schubert's Du bist die Ruh' and the Ave Maria, her facility at triple-tonguing with Rimsky-Korsakoy's Hymn to the Sun, her physical stamina when at the end of her program she played three encores...
...flowing away from subjects like German, and with the revision of its more fundamental courses, the department is showing its sensitivity to public demand. The other foot must be planted forward with equal firmness, and the staff, too often cold and uninspiring, be made more responsive to the tone of the present...
...writing this solely on the basis of the facts published in your news columns last Saturday, to comment on the unfair tone of your editorial entitled "Payment Deferred", dealing with the protest of certain commuters, against Dudley Hall fees being put on the term bill. Instead of this "outburst of a discontented minority" pointing strongly to "shyster tactics", it seems to me that the commuters have a good case...
Similar in tone is last week's angry Hearst: Lord of San Simeon** by Oliver Carlson & Ernest Sutherland Bates. Mr. Carlson, a University of Chicago researcher, collaborated last year with Mr. Bates, onetime literary editor of the Dictionary of American Biography, on five articles about Mr. Hearst which appeared in the Leftist magazine Common Sense. The series gave Common Sense's circulation such a boost that Authors Carlson & Bates sensed they had a good thing, expanded their journalistic findings into a 332-page book...