Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tone for his speech, Hooton warned, "The anthropologist is a little lay-brother of the physician, and anyone who asks a little brother's advice may expect to get an earful...
...explaining the reason for re-opening their petition correspondence with the White House, the resolution reads: "We believe that the destruction of shipping in the Atlantic has reached a stage of crisis." This has a considerably more disturbed tone than the first petition...
With the mild tone of a Divinity School graduate but all the conviction of a Marxist, Granville Hicks '23 (who is both) articulates the "leftist case for aid to Britain" in the current Harvard Progressive. Somewhat less polite but equally positive, the student editors disagree with Mr. Hicks. "Disagree" is putting it mildly, for in fact they accuse him of a "lack of faith in democracy". Among us good leftists, this is the unkindest cut of all. It is an epithet which is arrived at in rather interesting fashion...
...husky Lawyer Jim Perry, resolved that Columbia should hear good music, whether or no. She persuaded Conductor Hans Kindler to bring Washington's National Symphony to Columbia, to play with a chorus she had helped get up. She commanded Husband Jim, a onetime footballer who is so tone-deaf that he failed to recognize the march at his own wedding, to find the money. He did his job so well that Columbia's concerts, mostly at $1 top, never lost their backers a penny...
...sure to lay off opera; the most important thing about symphonies is the number of minutes it takes to play'em-hold out for the short, noisy ones . . . They got you for the same reason they hooked me-first, you are a sucker and second, you are tone-deaf. That i; the type they want...