Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tone of the 8-1 decision should permit the federal government to go far with its power program. That Chief Justice Hughes should dwell upon the authority of the government to dispose of constitutionally acquired property, augurs well for the government's hopes to compete with private business in fields where such competition harmonizes with the general welfare. The New Deal has been given immeasurable power according to the broadest implications of yesterday's decision, and one can only hope that the Roosevelt government will use it with greater sagacity than it has hitherto shown...
...plot, more unusual because of its interpretation than its content, concerns itself with a young architect (Franchot Tone) who reclaims from drunken oblivion a once great actress (Bette Davis). Though already engaged Tone finds himself falling in love with Miss Davis and breaks his engagement. The issue however, is complicated by the presence of Miss Davis' former husband. A very unusual conclusion defies the custom of happy endings: seeming to be dictated by a sense of justice and duty, more real than Hollywood fantasy. We especially recommend this picture and Miss Davis' interpretation of a drunken derelict in particular...
...that she can afford to be magnanimous in bearing the yellow man's burden. When Mr. Hirota in his speech last week replied to the State of the Union speech in which President Roosevelt clearly meant to excoriate Japan (TIME, Jan. 13), the words were Japanese but the tone was strongly reminiscent of such Victorian statesmen as Lord Palmerston. "It is to be regretted," said the Foreign Minister of Imperial Japan, "that there are abroad statesmen of repute who seem determined to impose upon others their private convictions as to how the world should be ordered...
Exclusive in only the most metaphorical sense, the story also concerns itself with the efforts of a star reporter (Stuart Erwin) to track down the racketeers; the professional vagaries of a tippling public prosecutor (Franchot Tone), and his shilly-shallying with two young ladies (Madge Evans, Louise Henry); the vocational difficulties of the neurotic triggerman (Joseph Calleia) for the numbers racketeers. Best scene in the picture and most gruesome* in the month's crop of such exhibits shows the public prosecutor torturing the triggerman into a wholesale confession of his crimes by beating him, strapping him into a chair...
...past years an outstanding criticism of the Harvard Glee Club has been that while it sang with unusual feeling and tone, the general effect was too heavy. Harvard has a good Glee Club but any organization limited solely to men's voices grows monotonous. No one has been able to hit on a solution. The importation of a few of the famed "castnati" from Italy has been suggested but it was discovered that the Mussolini regime has abolished all that sort of thing. On occasional instances the Wellesley Glee Club has been merged with Harvard's but this has been...