Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best chance to win. The Blanco (White) Party had dissidents, too, but for the moment they were united behind the presidential candidacy of tall, white-thatched Luis Alberto de Herrera, 73. Herrera, "last of the South American caudillos" ("chiefs"), had for 30 years given the Blancos their nationalistic, isolationist tone. Most of Herrera's support lay in the rocky-spined back country, where illiterates could recognize his familiar face on the illustrated ballots...
Touch football with a dash of color was the general impression of some two-score early birds and class-cutters who journeyed down to Soldiers Field in the morning mists yesterday to watch the Los Angeles Rams cavort around in their six-tone practice uniforms...
...Tone which resounds through all of O'Neill's work like the ringing of red iron on an anvil" [TIME...
...books (China to Me, The Soong Sisters, Hong Kong Holiday) impertinent, casual Emily Hahn proved that she was the only living person who could write about China as though it slept under her pillow. Raffles of Singapore has just the same chummy tone; few historical figures have ever been apostrophized so chattily, so personally-at times, Hero Raffles simply gets lost in the Hahn handbag, like a lipstick. Nonetheless, Raffles of Singapore is a lively, unconventional biography, which is also as formless as a conversation conducted by walkie-talkie...
...second act is in a different tone entirely. Here Adam and his disciple. Alter Ego, meet their fate at the hands of their creations. And here the Capeks lose their sense of satire and even of drama and let their play degenerate into a mass of obscure symbolism and meaningless, unmotivated action...