Word: toning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan's lower East Side, taught him the technic taught, of the he violin. As he had been taught, so he played at his debut-the Elgar Concerto & Tschaikovsky's in D with 60 men from the Philharmonic, a Debussy-Paganini-Bethoven group with the piano. His tone was full, his fingers fleet, his ways pleasing. Critics used superlatives to de scribe his virtuosity, bewailed that he had been unable to grasp more of his teacher's glowing intelligence as yet unmatched by any pupil...
...style in general, depends upon facts. He is not unconscious of the drama of football, but he is not given to printing intimate little scenes from the lives of great college athletes. He seldom wakes a coach up in bed, and if he does he does not describe the tone of his voice. When facts are not available, Mr. Webb's hunches are based on the facts of the past, plus such facts as he learns through his contacts...
...undergraduate who, by the middle of his third year, has combined as nearly as possible the remarkable qualities of the late Francis H. Burr '09, of whom in 1911 President Lowell wrote in the memorial life of Burr presented with the scholarship "It seems to me that the tone of athletics, and of the whole student body, has been higher of late years than in the past, and that Francis Burr was one of the moving factors in the change...
...inventor of Weed nonskid tire chains was not dead, as reported; nor had his wife died "penniless after husband's fortune went to his stenographer," as reported. Wealthy Col. Harry D. Weed was alive in Bridgeport, Conn.; and, if the conciliatory tone of the Herald Tribune was indicative, he was not only alive but "kicking...
Clayton Hamilton, speaking in a light vein, declared that although the stage has improved technically, the general tone and standards have been lowered very perceptibly because the right people are not going to the theatre...