Word: toning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Briefly, the old and often successful British method of repeating in a tone of horror, what someone else has frankly said, 'was applied, last week, to President Coolidge, very much as it was once applied to Wilhelm II. Only British Labor's Daily Herald went the whole hog and bluntly said...
Only partially appeased with this consoling thought, the infants tone down their vocal chorus to a mere whimper, and concentrate on the delectable vision conjured up by their mother's words. At last their vigil is rewarded and the familiar step of their progenitor echoes through the open transom. But as the door swings open upon the expectant group, one glance suffices to convey the dire truth that the father's quest has been in vain. Abstract knowledge is the only sustenance he has to offer in the eyes of the brave mother...
...Pierian has been improving its repertoire from year to year, approaching regular symphony standards. Last year a great step in this direction was made. H. T. Parker of the Boston Transcript commended the noticeable improvement in technique, phrasing, color, style, and tone quality...
...whole creed of complacent capitalistic individualism and of the right and duty of economic success commits him to the continuation of that hypocritical religion of 'prosperity' which is, in my judgment, the greatest force that exists at present in maintaining the unrealities of our social tone and temper...
...From Mr. Koussevitzky's lowest string issues a tone purged of all raucousness, noble and superb, and from thence upward the scale is pure, euphonious, beguiling? upward to the region of the flageolet tones, where Mr. Koussevitzky's harmonies have a clear, ethereal and crystalline loveliness that challenges credulity...