Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began with the assurance that he would not lose his head or his temper. Then, in the tone of a Dutch uncle, he reviewed his Administration's foreign policy. Since this was frankly a political speech -although the Foreign Policy Association is nonpartisan-the President obviously reviewed only the good points...
...tone of Alexander's report was not alarming. He hinted that new shark fleets may have fresh tactics and technical equipment aimed to offset the deadly Allied location devices and methods which ruined the U-boats in 1942-43. But the sub commanders are more "shy, cautious and nervous" than they used to be. The "largest ocean supply convoy of all time" -167 ships spread over 26 square miles of seaway and carrying 1,000,000 tons of cargo-recently arrived in Britain without meeting a single U-boat attack on the way. Like most Atlantic convoys these days...
Spectacle paints the picture in bold strokes: the cheering Princeton-Yale football crowd, the Liberty Bond rallies, the Democratic national conventions, the wild hilarity of the Armistice Day celebration. But there is sincerity, there is force, and there is a certain tone of power and importance about this production that few Hollywood spectacles achieve. Where emotionalism usually buries the theme, here martial music and gaudy effect drive it home, and one is never allowed to forget that genuine patriotism was defeated by selfish individualism. That is the only idea that "Wilson" tries to convey. It never goes...
...President kept his tone mainly light and good-humored, even in some of his most savage digs. But at one point his voice dropped into solemnity and he said: "These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or on my wife, or on my sons-no, not content with that-they now include my little dog Fala." The audience roared; even the stoniest of Republican faces around U.S. radios cracked into a smile...
...other members of the recording industry's "big three" (Columbia, Decca) agreed. Experiments with wire and film had revealed a number of shortcomings. The cost of apparatus for playing wire and film recordings is still too high ($400 to $600). The quality of tone, at present, is inferior to that of discs. Experts conceded a limited postwar use for wire recording as developed by the U.S. armed forces, thought the wire recorder might in time replace dictaphones. But wire recordings cannot be printed from master records, like discs. Each must be re-recorded from the master, separately. With...