Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reputation as one of the best newsmen in the business. A graduate of Franklin College (1910), he went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Then he worked ten years on the New York Times as reporter and editorial writer. He quit to freelance, wrote popular fiction. Scholarly in tone and appearance, he is no pedant. When the Saturday Review of Literature carried a weighty article on Indiana authors some years ago, he wrote a dour reply: Indiana's greatest contribution to culture was unquestionably the late Cinemactress Carole Lombard...
...move too slowly, overmuch plot makes it run too long. With more work (on the author's part) and less play, Uncle Harry might have come closer to being a first-rate psychological thriller; it contains a sound idea, clever characterizations, some skillful writing, and a neatly ironic tone...
...phone call providentially interrupted what threatened to be a lengthy and irrelevant tale. Bertie came back shaking his head. "Speaking of Jeeves," he said. "That was Jeeves himself. He just heard the news. Seemed to take it pretty hard. Y'know," said Bertie, in an awed, incredulous tone, "I believe the poor old blighter was squiffed...
Encore Album (Gregor Piatigorsky, cellist; Columbia; 6 sides). Six engaging short pieces, ranging from the tried & true Swan of Saint-Saëns to Prokofieff's whimsical Masques, played with flawless style, velvet tone...
...program called it a concerto, but the soloist was a soprano. For 24 minutes, off & on, Margot Rebeil warbled wordlessly, while the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under plump Eugene Goossens wove strands of tone around her. Conductor Goossens was giving his audience not only a new work, but a new wrinkle in composition: a full-fledged concerto for voice and orchestra...