Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whiskey for Arteries. In artery ailments, such as arteriosclerosis or Buerger's disease, patients are often attacked by muscular weakness so severe that their legs buckle under them. To tone up the muscles, doctors try to send a large supply of blood to the legs. For this they give drugs to expand the blood vessels, injections of salt solution, or even cut certain tracts in the sympathetic nervous system. As a check on the blood supply they take the temperature of the skin: if the temperature rises, they assume that the leg is getting a large supply of blood...
...head of the last great democracy still at peace, with 33 weeks left of his second term. Yet, although he was in his eighth year as President, although he had moved, worked, eaten, laughed, exhorted, prayed in the intensest glare of public scrutiny; although his every facial grimace, the tone of his voice, each mannerism, the dark mole over his left eyebrow, the mole on his right cheek-although all these were public property, intimate to every U. S. citizen, still there was no man in the U. S. who could answer the question: Who is Franklin Roosevelt...
...bitter Britons and Frenchmen last week-and Leopold's warning gave the Allies time to prepare for the blow. French Premier Paul Reynaud flew to London to consult Prime Minister Winston Churchill, then, back in Paris, told France over the radio that Belgium had given up. His tone was almost a snarl when he spoke of Leopold...
...given more work is more than this writer can figure out . . . Buster Balley's "Chained To A Dream," recorded when the John Kirby band was still at the Onyx Club, has a few too many pretty trills for me, although it does show off the amazingly pure symphonic tone that Buster can get on clarinet when he wants to. The reverse of "San Juan Hill" is by one of the small Duke Ellington groups and is much better than usual...
...means changing the deepest convictions of 130,000,000 people." It is not a dream. Actually, the so-called "deepest convictions" of America are the insanity, the nightmare that is drawing us down into the quicksand of hopelessness, desperation, and war. A clear voice speaking with the strong tone of leadership will wake the people from their delirium. Only a daring and challenging new approach to the problem can clear...