Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Evening Post" has a proper satiric intention, but it is not accomplished very sharply. The poem sounds like Eliot's "Boston Evening Transcript," in regard to both rhythm and subject matter, and it falls into two halves, one satirical, the other discriptive; a fact which sports any unity of tone. Mr. Laughlin's "Pirates Pass" is a more accomplished piece of work. It is written with much deftness, its vocabulary is interesting, and its use of quotation is admirable-really finished piece of craftsmanship. I find in it, however, one or two mannerisms that ought...
...greatest party" had started night before. A host of otherwise solid citizens had dressed up in their dinner jackets and had taken their wives, sweethearts and daughters to a prize fight at Ellis Auditorium between somebody called Eddie Wolfe and a pug named Harry Dublinsky. To lend tone to the affair, Jack Dempsey was picking his nose in the ring and acting as referee. After Mr. Dublinsky and Mr. Wolfe had finished with each other, the celebrants moved en masse to the Hotel Peabody, a copy of which graces every U. S. town. Unhappily, the opening of the new Egyptian...
...usual tone of remarks on the subject has been a heated criticism of its mere presence, but all of the words and mouthings have apparently fallen on deaf or unrelenting ears. All efforts have gone in vain and little trouble has been expended in remedying a situation that is annoying to many...
Since the exception is said to prove the rule, an adverse criticism should lend the proper tone to the bursts of applause which have greeted Greta Garbo's latest picture, "Queen Christina." But even with this assurance it is with some qualms that we have to say that this historical masterpiece is only an ordinary film...
...idol, became her friend. Jamesians will enjoy the many anecdotes she tells (too lengthy for quotation) of the Master's circuitous crotchets. She met "everybody," seems to have liked them all except George Moore, whose malicious conversation she describes as "a torrent of venom. It was the tone of The Dunclad without its wit." Though France is Edith Wharton's second home (she has lived there since 1907), most of her 42 books have been concerned with the U. S. scene. She does not admit which literary child is her favorite, but says she is "bored and even...