Word: toned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wife entertain little, then usually for the younger set in Washington-his daughter is at Bryn Mawr. He is well liked in the Senate, is labeled a "fair" Senator, honest, conscientious, colorless. Every year he makes a few carefully prepared speeches, reads them in a conversational tone without gestures and carefully sends copies to the press gallery for distribution...
...have not accused Harvard men of being snobs individually; my reference was to snobbishness as a corporate impression, representing the tone of a university...
...Miss Claire, who has spent her respite quarreling with Henry Daniel about opening a window, answers laconically, "Nothing unusual." You might lift her phrase from its context and apply it as criticism to the picture as a whole but only, in fairness, if you excluded the suavity of the tone with which it is uttered and the unfailing gaiety that gives it point. Director Marshall Neilan does a good job transposing stage values to the screen. Actress Claire plays with a deftness perfected during the weeks when she was doing The Awful Truth on Broadway. Denouement: the husband learns...
...dismissed did not alter the fact that the Acting High Commissioner had been superseded in authority by the return to Jerusalem last week of High Commissioner Sir John Chancellor. That Sir John presently received instructions to take an unmistakably pro-Jewish line was strongly suggested by the tone of his next proclamation at Jerusalem: "I have learned with horror of atrocious acts committed by bodies of ruthless and blood-thirsty evildoers, of savage murders perpetrated upon the defenseless members of the Jewish population regardless of age and sex, accompanied, as at Hebron, by acts of unspeakable savagery. . . . My first duties...
Lown v. Vallee. One Bert Lown, jazz orchestra manager, sued Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee, idolized radio love-singer, for breaking a 50-50 partnership Lown says they had. Lown said he started Vallee on Broadway ,and "trained him to put a certain sob-like tone in his voice which . . . has proved one of the main sources of his present singing popularity." Replied Sobber Vallee: "The suit is too preposterous to discuss...