Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...common tone of the article and letters is the fear that the present administration is allowing the qualities of character and those described thirty years ago under the head of ethics to be obscured by a modern brand of scholasticism. If we lose sight of this aim in the College, we might as well, to quote the letter of Mr. J. J. Wiggins '12, "Change the name of the old place, and call it "Harvard Square Normal School" or something like that, so that people won't get it confused with what it used...
...Friday the Sodality will hold its annual dance at Longwood Towers, varying the classical tone of their concerts by spending the evening dancing to the jazz of Jack Francis and his orchestra...
...tone of the report conforms to the opinion of present undergraduate agents and the manager of the Cooperative Society on three of the four issues. On the other, the matter of allowing solicitation to continue throughout the year, the committee's findings are in error. It proposes to eliminate the admitted nuisance of solicitors through the publication of an official "Do Not Disturb" card which the official solicitors will not be allowed to violate. No one likes to be bothered with salesmen. Everyone would get an official card and the solicitors, so carefully nurtured in every other respect, would...
...film in its spectacular way, though it can hardly be said to be accurate history. The romantic story of the young clerk's rise from a desk to the domination of all India with its untold millions, has been dressed up in splendid clothes and given the proper Kiplingesque tone of magnificent imperialism. For cinematic purposes Miss Loretta Young has been given the vastly expanded role of Clive's wife and though this no doubt brings more fans to the box-office it can hardly be said to add to the strength of the picture. The famous events...
Despite the alarmist tone evident in news despatches from Europe, no immediate crisis is likely. No matter how many men Hitler may press into the German army, no matter how large an air force he may have created, even so mad a fanatic as he cannot seriously contemplate taking on France, Italy, Russia and Britain at the same time. It is thus of paramount importance that these four nations make known their stand at once; otherwise, as Karl Radek recently pointed out in "Izvestia," Hitler may well take Europe's fate into his own hands and initiate another phase...