Word: toned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...program follows: Military March No. 2 Schubert-Casella Suite "From Holberg's Time" Grieg Intermezxo from "Goyescas" Granados "Sadko," Tone Poem Rimsky-Korsakoff "Ball Scene" and "March to the Scaffold from the Fantastic Symphony Berlioz The Swan of Tuonela Sibelius "Pacific 231," Orchestral Movement Honegger Sixth Hungarian Dance Brahms Scherzo from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Mendelssohn Overture Solennelle, "1812" Tchaikovsky
...whole tone of the new Lampoon, however, is not ironic but kindly. It beams with benevolence, like the Christian Science Monitor. It is the Pickwick among college funny papers; a smiling old philanthropist, with a fondness for old friends, old wine and old jokes. Only at intervals in this issue will the reader cut himself on the razor edge of real wit. There is a paragraph in the south-west corner of page 232 which would have made F. P. A. very happy had he thought of it. The parody of the sainted Bruce Barton on page 237 is clean...
...ladies. The sensation, at the time, was international, if not cosmic. Yet the Court asked last week: "Have you a hus-band?" Sari Fedak (shrugging a black, snaky shoulder): "Thank God, no!" The Court: "Have you any physical defects?" Sari Fedak (relaxing in her chair, replying in a sultry tone): "Certainly not-unless in my brain." Ah, reflected the auditors, more than one brain had been turned by Sari Fedak. Does not Count Emerich Dagenfeldt, now an old man, dwell locked in a wing of his castle, preparing incessantly gifts and toys for the two non-existent children whom...
...Tone of Stage Rising...
...highly trained actors to oraw from who have completed their education before taking up the stage. It has not been thus in the United States, however, until recently, but the steadily rising number of college men and women who have chosen acting as their profession has raised the general tone of the American drama...