Word: toned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bishop Cannon who pounced upon Secretary Mellon's letter, and with a tone of authority which electricity clearly recorded, despatched a long telegram, in part as follows: "Hon. Morris Sheppard, Senate Chamber...
...course, to be expected that the wet propagandist would misconstrue President Lowell's recent article on Reconstruction and Prohibition. There is little in it to justify their attempts to use its as a polemic. It is judicial in tone and shows an ability to see two sides to the question. It admits the high moral purpose of the supporters of the 18th amendment, virtually endorsing Mr. Hoover's characterization of prohibition as a great experiment, noble in purpose and far reaching in results. As to the results, the article says, "Prohibition has no doubt done good. It has abolished...
...glacier-gazing, to Daniello, back to Max again. She it was, unwittingly, who escaped with the stolen violin concealed in her banjo case. But Jonny followed her to Switzerland for it, jumped in her window one morning, recovered it and had it for his jazz until Daniello recognized its tone over the radio and set the police on him. Desperately then Jonny tried for escape. He bought a ticket for Amsterdam. He would go back home and "never leave the dear White Way again." But the police were too quick for him and he had to drop the violin...
...undergraduate newspaper going; the medium of judgment chosen by observers is the editorial pages of college papers. The latest criticism, from the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, is an epitome of all that has been said on the subject lately. It asserts that college editors fail to harmonize the tone of their editorial columns with the responsibility that is theirs by virtue of their place as representatives of the college in print. Cynicism, flippancy, and disregard of conventionalities are specific charges...
...striving for popular readibility is one side of the picture. College newspapers vary with the college even more than do larger papers with the community. Where the tone of the college is one of popular appeal, the note struck in the paper will be like it. But there are colleges which have reputations of high seriousness which are often not borne out in mature productions in print...