Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kings Row" has an appeal that is unique among the ranks of modern heavies. Hitting at some delicate pillars of accepted conduct, the picture has the force of a sermon well organized, and very well delivered. And the background music of Wolfgang Korngold makes the setting fit the earthy tone of the film...
Always ready to see the brighter side of a grim situation, Time was thrilled to know that Harvard men read the publication so carefully. But as for the tone of the manifestations of reader interest, Time said "Zounds...
Second Front. Without rancor, Stalin built a good part of his speech around the second front-which "[will come] sooner or later . . . because our Allies need it no less than we do." Gone was the tone of reproach, so clear in Stalin's letter to Henry Cassidy (TIME, Oct. 12). Gone was the insinuation that Britain was harboring in Rudolf Hess a diplomatic agent from Hitler...
Stalin did not mention the current battles in the Mediterranean basin, but the tone of his address suggested advance knowledge of the African campaign...
...Hollywood, before the Government exempted contracted 1942 salaries from the new income ceiling (see p. 92), Cinemactor Franchot Tone walked...