Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britons ever sang the second stanza of God Save the King. Anyone who did sounded as if he were instructing the Almighty in the tone of an irate football coach bawling out a quarterback between halves. It goes: O Lord our God, arise, Scatter his enemies And make them fall; Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks; On Thee our hopes we fix; God save...
Differences must be met by "conciliation and not a yielding by one state to the arbitrary will of the other," said Secretary of State Byrnes in his recapitulation of the Paris Peace Conference. In time perhaps, the harshly discordant tone of West-15, East-6, which marked every refrain at the Conference, will become a sonorous harmony. The proposal by Australia and Cuba to eliminate the veto power of the Big Five on the Security council, the question of an International Refugee Organization, and the Russian plan for the dissemination of information on the armed forces of member nations...
...mellow atmosphere of the Algonquin, where he promptly established himself in a suite, hefty Ben Bodne, 43, brought a new and different tone. As a small businessman in Charleston, S.C., and onetime head of a firm dealing in home bottling supplies, he had had a run-in with federal authorities during Prohibition. Result: a $25 fine for violating the dry law. Next Bodne tried the coal business, then he started wholesaling oil. He cut no fancy figure; in Charleston he was regarded as very small potatoes. But Bodne hinted that he had made a killing in war contracts, claimed that...
...last night with a brief but information-packed forum broadcast from 9:30 to 9:45 o'clock by the Crimson Network. With members Edric A. Weld '46, Richard G. Axt '46, L. Magruder Passano '46, and Roger S. Kuhn '46 in attendance, the program set an informative tone for the rest of the broadcast series. The second program will be staged this evening...
...great violinist, Niccolo Paganini) played Beethoven and Debussy at a brisker than usual clip, but the music was warm and dramatic. Wrote the San Francisco Chronicle's critic, Alfred Frankenstein: "Perhaps never before has one heard a string quartet with so rich, mellow and superbly polished a tone...