Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meals, in bed, he had developed such clear ideas on the meaning of each phrase and nuance. First thing he did was to reseat the orchestra, putting the first violins on one side, the second violins on the other, to hear two distinct voices instead of one massed tone. Next he instructed the fiddlers to make their bows move as one, whether Stokowski fussed about such things or not. The Mozart-Kleine Nacht Musik started off too delicately to suit him. "Excuse me," he shouted. "It is too fairy. Mozart was very man." He imitated perfectly the sounds he wanted...
This letter, I realize, may be in itself unnecessary, inasmuch as the adolescent tone of the article must have left the majority of those who read the CRIMSON yesterday, unimpressed. To label the story as a display of bad taste is obviously superfluous. Emily Lewis...
...their mountainous fund, I have found that a good number of professors share my some what low opinion of the "Review's" criticism. They have found, as I have, a curious ratio in some cases between the amount of advertising of a book in the "Review" and the favorable tone of the criticism of it. I did not mean to imply, nor do I know, that there never is honest, "sober and constructive" criticism in the magazine's pages, I was referring to such phenomena as essays on Addison's small clothes and like subjects, and reviews like Mr. George...
...declaim in measured tone, to weigh each gesture carefully, to poise and balance gracefully upon the stage may once have been the aims of public speaking, but they are relics of an era that considered what was said less important than how it was said. The Lee Wade and Boylston contests have been lauded for encouraging public speaking, and an interest in great orations. Public speaking certainly has its place in the modern scheme of education. But the public speaking that is merely parrot like elocution is designed only for those who will in later life be well supplied with...
...Charles M. Russell, the cowboy artist who died a few years ago. Russell encouraged Tucker to write his memoris and had planned to illustrate them, but his death prevented it. Tucker's manuscript was edited by Grace Stone Coates, who has done an excellent job of preserving the authentic tone of the old cowboy's own expression...