Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyed clients he asked only the name, nationality and business of the deceased. Then he would step to the head of the newly turned grave and deliver eulogies of any desired length. He had practiced, he boasted, ten years to give his voice the correct hollowness of tone. When funeral fashions changed, and speeches gave way to flowers, Don Tomas tried vainly to meet the competition. He pared his rates four times. He threw in six Latin quotations free. He introduced a ten minute oration for $1. But modern Argentines continued to buy flowers, to shun Don Tomas' speeches...
...such a contemporary, conversational tone Robert Graves writes his historical novel about the Emperor Claudius (B. C. 10-A. D. 54). Readers for whom the life of ancient Rome has been mummified by academic historians, museums and Latin grammar will give Author Graves a rising vote of thanks. He has done what few historians can do by making a complicated period of history as exciting, as plausible, as a well-told story...
Next afternoon he broke two sticks. One, during the Beethoven Ninth, third movement, flew into the audience and was recovered after a mild scramble by a lady who put it in her handbag. The other splintered during the Strauss tone poem, Ein Heldenlebcn, the section labeled "The Hero's Battlefield." The butt-end of this was captured by Warren Mayo, president of U. of M.'s varsity glee club. Mayo took it to Stock's dressing room after the performance, and the master good-naturedly inscribed his initials upon...
Swede Gosta Larsson has been living in the U. S. long enough (eleven years) to 'write his first novel in English and to announce it as the first volume of a trilogy. Gentler in tone than most proletarian novels (perhaps because its scene is patient Sweden), it hints at a rougher sequel. To many a reader who likes highly-seasoned stories, Our Daily Bread will seem insipid fare, but for those who can do without salt it will provide an honest mouthful...
...makes a very lovely Sadie, plays a demanding part; a maid in a wealthy household, the unfortunate heroine of a love affair which doesn't quite come off a chorus girl, the wife of a millionaire and finally a sweet young thing. For her suitors, there is Franchot Tone who outrages her sense of fair play; Gene Raymond whose faithlessness forces her into a cabaret; and then the millionaire Brennan, who proves her mettle. She unfortunately marries the most unlikely of the three...