Word: toneless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twisted features toneless as grey clay, a middle-aged Brooklyn man last week doubled up with such pain in his abdomen that his tousled head banged his knees. For a multitude of similar sufferers from cancer of abdominal organs the only anodyne is morphine...
...away from the slums, Jackie gets involved with gangsters, and when he finds little honor among thieves, joins the Navy. Meanwhile, a dark-eyed benefactress (Kathleen Burke) pretties up one of the tenements, brightens the lives of the boy's down-at-heels father (Guy Usher), his toneless, defeated mother (Marjorie Main) and the little girl in the next flat (Maureen O'Connor), who sings pathetic songs in the voice of a younger, fresher Helen Morgan. Actress Main won wide acclaim for her portrayal of "Babyface" Martin's mother in the stage and screen versions of Dead...
...successful banker. Clive Brook. The managing editor goes to his wife to verify the story with blood shot eyes, distrait hair, and a wild look. One gathers that it is an ordeal for Mr. Bancroft. The next shot shows him dictating the story to his stenographer in a heavy, toneless voice. That good man is greatly put out as his superior tells of the duplicity of the wife, the ugly details of the liason, and finally the killing of Clive Brook by Mr. Bancroft. It's pretty good news even for a tabloid...
Excerpt: ". . . Suddenly the lights snapped on ... and now the ether vibrated with the earth-girdling bellow of the greatest radio hook-up in history. The eulogistic phrases were familiar; so was the toneless voice of an Ex-President of the United States for whom the great inventor remembered voting. But he could hear now, since death had stripped him of his protective infirmity. Muttering sadly to himself, the old man pressed his fingers to his ears...