Word: toning
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first place, it is never economy to buy cheap clothes, for with them you are never well dressed. Good clothes, made by some tailor in whom you have confidence, are more economical in the end, for there is a good "tone" to them, even when they are old. In buying the highest grade of garments you are not paying for "name," but you are getting the best of everything from the wool to the finished garment. The wool used in the finest English cloths, is allowed to lie over two years, after being dyed, before being used; you can readily...
...first place, it is never economy to buy cheap clothes, for with them you are never well dressed. Good clothes, made by some tailor in whom you have confidence, are more economical in the end, for there is a good "tone" to them, even when they are old. In buying the highest grade of garments you are not paying for "name," but you are getting the best of everything from the wool to the finished garment. The wool used in the finest English cloths, is allowed to lie over two years, after being dyed, before being used; you can readily...
...states represented. Among these are North and South Carolina, Mississippi, Utah, and Oregon. The presence of men from so many sections of the country does much to liberalize college sentiment. Moreover, the general character of the men who enter the school is such as perceptibly to raise the tone of scholarship here...
Prince Serge Wolkonsky of Russia lectured last night to a large audience in Sever 11 on the "Parliament of Religions" held this autumn at Chicago. He said: One of the most notable things in this convention of men of all religions was the uniform tone of friendliness adopted by all speakers. Every one seemed to recognize the fact that they had come together to find their points of similarity and so to establish a feeling of brotherhood rather than to discuss their differences of opinion. How anyone could see there a Greek Archbishop, a Buddhist from China, and a Confucian...
...editorials are below the standard and are decidedly weak. There is no strong position taken in any of them; the general tone running through them is one of complacent self satisfaction. Everything is going about as it ought to, our faults are not very bad; the college is really all right...