Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cause. Ever since the Italians took Ethiopia, Britons have nursed the Negus, Haile Selassie, with convincing tenderness. Not long ago, when the British began to resurge in Africa, he flew from Britain toward his native land to start beating his war drum (his drum, he says, has a different tone from that of all other Ethiop chiefs; the blacks know it well). At the same time the British sent "military missions" among their would-be allies, to persuade them to rise up against the Italians. But there is no persuasion like apparent success. The campaigns in Eritrea and Kenya were...
...words was himself listed as an ardent pacifist in the '20s. He is Union Seminary's famed theologian, highbrowed, sharp-eyed Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, and behind him are a group of potent church sponsors disturbed by a belief that every existing interdenominational paper is strongly pacifist in tone and no longer reflects the sentiment of most ministers...
...mankind is probably not so much affected by the Lawrence looks and talent as by the enduring Lawrence charm. She suggests the rakish, amusing, grey hound-style young women who in the middle '205 obsessed the fastidious heroes of Michael Aden's novels of Mayfair. Actually this Mayfairian tone is something Gertie only gradually acquired. She did not come to the theatre from England's upper crust. Born in London on July 4, 1898, baptized as Gertrude Alexandra Dagmar Lawrence Klasen, she was the daughter of a Danish interlocutor of a traveling minstrel show, and an Irish actress...
Last week, after the 1,009th performance, Stage magazine gave a party for Olsen & Johnson on the stage of Manhattan's Winter Garden. The proceedings had the scrambled, incredible tone of Hellzapoppin itself. Olsen & Johnson approached a large birthday cake with a pair of fire axes. From the ceiling fell hundreds of balloons filled with capsules to be exchanged for boxes of candy, miniature radios, other favors. During an absurd game of Truth or Consequences, Heavyweight Lou Nova ran a foot race, impeded by a hastily donned corset. The most implausible feature of the entertainment came when, as another...
Taking its tone from the fact that the majority of the U. S. favors such aid and that the U. S. appears committed in principle, if not in detail, to the President's policy, which in effect sets up a London-Washington Axis, the picture says nothing that has not been said before. But the commentary, accompanied by pictures which lend it immense dramatic force, seems like much stronger meat than the U. S. has yet tasted. It may send shivers up the backs even of interventionists and make the hair of isolationists stand on end. Coming...