Word: toned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...help in strengthening U. S. district and circuit courts, so that he can count on at least one high-calibre judge in each jurisdiction. In Manhattan, he counts on Circuit Judge Robert Porter Patterson, a Republican. In Philadelphia, it is Circuit Judge Francis Biddle, a New Dealer. New tone has been sought for the bench by picking eminent law teachers. Example: Herschel Arant, dean of Ohio State University's Law School, now a judge of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals...
This hardly seemed the proper tone for future partners. Nor were the times ripe for calm negotiation. But as the sensations of Germany's conflict with Danzig dwindled before the bigger sensation of a German-Russian anti-aggression pact, Yugoslavia's quarreling factions reluctantly, slowly, drew together: sporazum was announced as ready for signing as soon as Yugoslavia's Regent Prince Paul agreed. A Balkan saying has it that the only difference between a Croat and a Serb is that a Croat is ten minutes late, a Serb ten minutes later. Last week it looked...
...fact that many a rich M.P. opposes his cousins, follows some anti-Chamberlain policies that the authors of the book advocate. Persuasive rather than strident, the book is obviously aimed for this autumn's probable General Election, attacks pro-Nazis and the Munich settlement, adopts a stern tone only when discussing outright Fascists and Conservatives and the Tory members of the Anglo-German Fellowship. British readers, who knew the British ruling class was rich, small and solid but scarcely expected to find that most of the world of Parliament is kin, doubted that much would come of the revelations...
Anti-Semitism. In the shadow of exile Moses and Monotheism was written. But no trace of lamentation shows in the tone of the book. We live, says Freud imperturbably, in remarkable times. For a long period it seemed that progress had made an alliance with barbarism, as in Russia, where a great attempt to lift the people to a higher standard of life was coupled with a ruthless suppression of free speech and thought. But in Germany this unnatural marriage has been dissolved, and barbarism proceeds alone...
...although the mood of graduation is simple and far from sombre, the several hundred Laertes who sit in the Quadrangle to-day cannot fail to carry away something of deeper tone than the note of momentary joy. Will they help achieve what the Class Orator saw as the need of civilization: intellectual integration? Will they contribute to the enthronement of those human values which can be the only means of preserving that balance between the individual and society which is freedom and the only way to insuring democracy? It may be, if in addition to the belief in the goodness...