Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radios and phonographs (taxed 10% as compared with 5½% last year) were close behind. Said an executive of Manhattan's Davego-City Radio chain (which normally sells at discounts up to 30%) in a tone of awe and wonderment: "They're even buying at list prices...
Publicity releases have it that the flippant, bantering, light-hearted tone of the film, aside from the air-battle scenes, is the result of suggestions from the British Air Ministry that the grim side of England's struggle be played down. Some movie fans might object that amid the highly significant events which the picture portrays, the success or failure of Tyrone Power's blackout pursuit and courtship of Betty Grable doesn't seem to make a lot of difference to anybody. Such a criticism is not without its point; this bomb-ridden little romance does trot merrily along through...
...Since no poll was taken, majority sentiment at Williamstown could only be judged by the tone of the speeches and the general reaction to them. Able Churchman Leiper is entitled to his own observation-but TIME'S reporter, who spent all six days at the meeting, is also entitled...
...before seen people walking in the street behind a hearse, and I was so absorbed by the sight that I did not notice that the onlookers were uncovering their heads until a man behind me touched my shoulder. 'Take off your hat,' he said in a low tone, 'and show your respect for a real man. Ain't you got no manners?' " At that moment young Bellamy Partridge realized that manners "were not just a form of household oppression . . . but that they had a substantial standing in the community...
...Comedian Oliver Hardy for $96,757 income taxes, Victor Mc-Laglen for $6,113, Comedienne Zasu Pitts for $426. // 11 Beauty Connoisseur Earl Carroll sued Paramount for $300,000, charging A Night at Earl Carroll's had done that much damage to his reputation as a producer. // Franchot Tone told the district attorney he gave a jeweler $14,100 to buy a diamond-and-sapphire clip, sell it, and split the profits; but the jeweler put the clip in hock and never gave back the money. // Nelson Eddy and stepson settled an $8,723 damage suit against them...