Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year's mobilization for Peace, compared to the more spectacular methods of previous years, was an overwhelming success. New Lecture Hall was well-filled; the reception enthusiastic; some of the speakers excellent. But somehow or other, the tone of the whole affair, and of all the speeches, seemed rather negative in outlook, with lots of indignation, horror stories, and descriptions of the futility of war. No-one thought of suggesting a conservative...
...makes no attempts to conceal the fact that he is attorney for the defence, and he rests his case boldly on the actual performance of Eliot as poet and as critic. He does not claim, like most advocates, to be in sole possession of the whole truth, so his tone is never arrogant or impatient; the only handicap with which his advocacy and enthusiasm have encumbered him is the tendency to deduce universal 'laws' of poetry from the practice of Eliot, but that obstacle has not seriously impaired or blunted his critical sense...
Director Lippert chose Steubenville for his field because of the mixed racial background, which he maintains makes for the richest tone color. The boys who went to sing with him soon learned that they must submit to a strict routine which precluded all roughhousing, all carefree yelling, kept them at practice as much as seven hours a day. When they were ready for concerts Director Lippert bought them bright snappy costumes: for sacred songs, red silk cassocks, white silk cottas, ruching for their necks; for secular songs, long blue serge trousers, white satin blouses, red pleated sashes. They arrived...
Frank Jerome Tone and Edward Goodrich Acheson made emery wheels obsolescent. An impure oxide of aluminum, emery was used for grinding in the time of the Pharaohs, was still the best abrasive industry had until 1891. In that year Acheson, looking for an artificial abrasive, found on the tip of a carbon electrode a few bright specks of an unknown substance. This, he discovered, was hard enough to cut glass and, when applied with oil to a wheel, would cut the face of a diamond tool. Acheson called the stuff "carborundum," because he thought it was composed of corundum...
...peers saw the opening. newspaper critics agreed that A Mid-summer Night's Dream was "exquisite." '"dazzling," ''magnificent," "of extraordinary beauty." In Manhattan, where so many reviewers attended the first night that the gala premiere for celebrities had to be held a night later, Franchot Tone and Joan Crawford held up Broadway sidewalk traffic for ten minutes and critics were equally bedazzled...