Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pride to Kappa Sigma, the fraternity Carmichael joined soon after he entered the University of Indian in 1920. There, in the famous Indiana Book Nook, Hoagy used to make his classmates weep as he played the original Old Rocking Chair, so sad a composition that his publishers made him tone its tragic lyrics down...
...anxious parents, radical children, and Chicago University, President Hutchins of that institution came down near the earth. "Students know," he said, "that on graduation they will face a world where competition is keener and the easier opportunities fewer than at any time in the last forty years." The general tone of the address, however, made in celebration of Chicago University's Forty-third Anniversary, was optimistic. True easier opportunities were fewer, but difficult opportunities made up for them, and the student realization of their situation, in the meanwhile, made them "knuckle down to the business of education" and infused them...
...those who feel that the United States should adopt a more sincere and effective neutrality program than the present one, the words of Bernard Baruch upon his return to the country a few days ago have a timely and impressive tone...
...performances in The Return of Peter Grimm are good and its general tone, despite the camera's inability to produce the incorporeal except in smeared dissolves, has the quiet literate authority that Producer Kenneth Macgowan usually gets into his output...
...only other moment when Little really seemed to be in danger occurred the next afternoon when he was playing slim 23-year-old Walter Emery of Oklahoma City. Far from friendly, the tone of this match had been set the day before when Emery, not in the least awed by reaching the final of the first Amateur he ever played in, admitted being thoroughly annoyed when Little refused to pose with him for photographers. They finished the morning round all even. Emery sat down in the club house, ordered lunch and arrogantly advised the waiter to "take an aspirin...