Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fine Job." By now a Communist loudspeaker van had arrived. With astute awareness that the rioting would give the Government a solid peg to hang the Communists on, the loudspeaker pleaded in fatherly tone: "Comrades, you've done a fine job . . . but remember, your anger should be directed against the owners of this building, not the police. . . . Now, come along. ... Go home in an orderly, disciplined way, worthy of the dignity of the working man." Through the crowd went three or four Communists, saying soothingly: "Now steady, comrades, steady, keep your heads." Finally the demonstrators began to break...
...Poetess-Pontifex. She once told Author Greenslet, "Ferris, you are a dear good boy, but you don't know a thing about biography, not a God damned Thing.'" Author Greenslet knows enough, at any rate, to have written a highly readable series of biographical sketches. In tone they are semi-official and rather adoring; apparently Lowells are rarely inspired by anything less than noble impulses and a passion for good works, though now & then they may make "mistakes." But at that, they are an interesting lot. Among them...
Petrillo flew from Chicago to New York to pull out all the stops. Muzak Corp. agreed not to pipe in canned music to silent hotels, A.F.L. electricians pledged themselves not to install jukeboxes. As Petrillo, dressed in two-tone shoes and a cream-colored silk shirt, made the rounds of unmusical bars, another friendly columnist, the New York Post's Earl Wilson, stalked him behind a glass of beer at Toots Shor's non-union spot...
...threat carried more moral force than military might. A Soviet veto could prevent punitive action by U.N. But the tone of the U.S. protest was proof of U.S. determination to take a stand in eastern Europe. If U.N. faltered, the U.S. would need to provide its own sanctions. Short of force the U.S., which shipped Yugoslavia $32,000,000 in wartime Lend-Lease, could hold up its share of the $100,000,000 in UNRRA supplies still undelivered to the Yugoslavs...
...tone of cold condescension often froze into icy contempt. His was the old, impenetrably murky defense about the double game. Why had he supported Munich? "Because we were not ready." Why had he accepted the Foreign Affairs portfolio in Pétain's Cabinet? "I intended . . . to retain my sympathies for the Allies and to help them secretly...