Word: toning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...register of many a Euro pean hotel a column is still provided for "Remarks." Therein occasional goaded Britons will note, "No jam, muffins poor." But in general the jottings are of a honeyed tone: "The water here is as pure as in Akron"; "Perfect service, splendid view"; "I had a real hot bath...
...Lester Donahue, in his performance of Rachmaninov's C Minor Concerto, will play a piano to which have been added certain improvements in tone and pedal- the invention of Mr. John Hays Hammond...
...Tutt's Pills induce regular habit, good digestion. Relieve the dyspeptic and debilitated and tone up the system against Malaria...
...significance is not always understood. The college is suffering from the results of its own success." He spoke of the schools now growing up around liberal arts nuclei at universities as definitely vocational in character and effective in operation. By comparison, the liberal arts nuclei are of low intellectual tone, their students concealing beneath an assumed pride in a jovial, carefree life, the black despair of an inferiority complex...
Developments in the Press were naturally lass capable of being accurately evaluated, but reflected a general tone of condemnation for Mr. Mellon and sympathy for M. Caillaux. The French temperament exploded into many lurid headlines and wild words, such as: "France, with a knife at her throat is being offered up to a God more detestable than the God of War!" But two questions were asked everywhere that summed up the tenor of thinking Frenchmen's worries: 1) How can France keep up her prestige in Europe for another five years, without knowing what her total obligations will eventually...