Word: toned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thomas A. Edison's four-year-old Ford at West Orange, N. J.; shouted loudly into Edison's deaf left ear: "What are you doing just now?" Edison made a sweeping gesture toward his laboratory with both arms: "Oh, any quantity of things." In an awed tone the Prince said: "Really...
...does not dress well. Her choice of models seems to some women inexplicable, for her tone combinations clash violently among one another and with her own coloring. . . . Perhaps, if she had an individual income, she could do better; at least she would not have to exclaim to society reporters at White House receptions: 'Don't be looking me over. I've worn this gown at two other receptions...
...Sold to Mr. Ringling," said an art dealer in a low tone to an assistant, who wrote "John Ringling" on a slip of paper and attached the slip to a painting by Emile van Marcke, showing masses of sturdy cattle in a meadow. Again and again through the afternoon on the second day of the sale of the paintings and furnishings of the Astor residence, 840 Fifth Ave., Manhattan, the name of Mr. Ringling was repeated. More than a hundred Astor pictures were sold in two days (for a total of $35,295) and John Ringling bought a great many...
This is not merely teachers' talk about bad boys whose ways annoy them. The boys themselves are talking in the same tone about the same problem. When the Harvard Crimson says too much emphasis is given to college football, scoffers might retort, "There is a reason." But there was last December a meeting of college editors and Chairmen of campus organizations of Harvard, Princeton, Bowdoin, Williams, Dartmouth, and Wesleyan which pointed out the evils of the situation and made shrewd suggestions for remedial rules. When announcement was made that Yale alone took $626,194 in football receipts in the single...
...international court tennis titles to Charles Suydam Cutting* because, as the result of a bad attack of influenza, his muscles were so stiff that he could not play in the challenge round of the national court tennis tournament at the Racquet & Tennis club. The funereal tone of the newspaper notices merely emphasized a statement made by a wise man that "athletes die twice?once when Death takes them and once when they retire from sport...