Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...screws on Germany. But with French politics in their present state of turmoll, that country is able to devote but little attention to foreign affairs. Consequently, it becomes increasingly likely that Dollfuss will not be able to hold out against the Nazi flood for much longer. The antagonistic tone adopted by Prince von Starhemberg, commander of the Heimwehr indicates all too clearly that the moment of collapse cannot be much longer deferred...
...business, bought the Théâtre des Champs Elysées which she still owns. Singing remains Walska's passion but the Philadelphia audience was hard put to understand why last week. She cannot get along without her notes. Each song sounds just like the last. What tone she has is thin and warbly. Yet with the scantiest encouragement she comes back beaming to teeter through an encore. The Philadelphia Record said: "Madame Walska's art is that of a little child. She should be seen and not heard...
...agra rian decree bestowing on every "indigent farmer" in Cuba 33 acres of land, a yoke of oxen, a cow, a plow, some seed and tax exemption for two years. Scratch, scratch, scratch-the President's pen flew over other decrees of a "Cuba for the Cubans" tone. Already approved was an estoppment by the Cuban Treasury of interest on some $60,000,000 lent by U. S. banks to the ousted regime of Tyrant Gerardo Machado. Last month President Grau signed a decree ordering the Cuban Electric Co., subsidiary of Electric Bond & Share, to cut its rates...
...performs the remarkable feat of superimposing two of the dustiest of formulas. Constance Bennett, as a singer who gets a chance to star, surprises one & all by being good. Likewise she completely deceives everyone by assuming the flimsiest sort of disguise. She wishes to impress her songwriting husband (Franchot Tone) and a producer (Tullio Carminati) but does not succeed until she changes places with a Parisian music-hall star who used to be her partner in a sister-act. Changing the color of her hair and assuming a French accent, Constance Bennett nearly seduces her husband away from herself. Good...
...winds are swinging into the romantic quarter. Anthony Adverse provided a whole bale of straws. And historical romances are now the order of the day. Though Author Talbot's Gentlemen-The Regiment! contains one or two scenes that certainly would not have amused Her Britannic Majesty, its general tone is dashingly Victorian. In mid-19th Century, when well-bred wives called their husbands "Mr." even in bed, the English county town of Harwick centred proudly in its two famed infantry regiments, one known as "The Fathers." Both were family affairs: one was officered mainly by the plodding Chappells...