Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...social snobs, Runyon (who spent $50 on his own shoes) could pause to comment on the fancy shoes being worn by the Marquess of Queensberry; for hero-worshipers he had the right tone of awe ("Now here comes J. Pierpont Morgan himself . . . [and] you see the lightning behind the brows, and sense the thunder in the voice"). To the honest, indignant poor, Runyon gave descriptions of Capone's ill-gotten silken underwear...
...popcorn, which is served up by the same people who cater to the Yankee Stadium, pervades the place and sets the tone of slightly frayed levity. Most of the stuff is eaten by children, who make up the fifty percent of the clientele to whom Buster Keaton is something new. The Laffmovie probably attracts a higher percentage of children than any other Boston theater, and since that means a higher percentage of truants, it presents certain problems. The manager must know when the school holidays fall, or he will be getting into trouble with the police; but on Saturday afternoons...
...splendor, which according to the concert notes is Mahler's substitution for God's judgment. At any rate, this reviewer, for one, does not know whether the tenors were properly balanced with the sopranos or if the basses were in good voice, but he asserts that the tone of the choral groups was always pleasant and controlled, even when they were called upon to join in one of the most overwhelming fortissimos ever survived by mortals...
Last week, in "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom's big saloon on Los Angeles' Wilshire Boulevard, Kay, now 25, was singing with a new kind of voice. Howling down the horns had given her a husky growl on the blues-but she still had a sweet, sandpapered tone left for the ballads. And Kay, who was born on an Oklahoma Indian reservation (she is a mixture of Irish, Iroquois, Cherokee and Choctaw), was beginning to look like a girl the U.S. would soon be hearing about. Her record of I'm the Lonesomest Gal in Town has already sold...
...jacket. There was a certain irony in this. Petrillo's carnivorous methods of "getting something for the boys" made him the natural foe of the canned-music business, but he was also part and product of it, as much a child of Edison and Marconi as the electric tone arm and the portable radio...