Word: toning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...find it somewhat difficult to express the indignation that I feel after reading the current issue of the Bean Pot. I do not expect a comic periodical to be dignified in tone nor entirely truthful. I look for a degree of exaggeration in its columns. Existing standards condone the lack of dignity and truthfulness which characterize many of these publications...
...Each revival," continued Professor Whitehead, "touches a lower peak than its predecessor, and each period of slackness a lower depth. The average curve marks a steady fall in religious tone. In some countries the interest in religion is higher than in others. But in those countries where the interest is relatively high, it falls as the generations pass. Religion is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life...
...point I wish to make is this: the literary style and temper of this anonymous reviewer are lacking in good taste; they detract from the tone of the Bookshelf as a white-checked vest and wing collar spoil the appearance of a quietly well-dressed...
...tutors, too, have begun to sense that the firm, confident tone displayed at their conferences is indeed an upward swing in the scholastic cycle, and not a more bull movement. No longer are a tutee's remarks confined to what he can assemble from the pigeon holes of the Encyclopedia Britannica. No longer does he deftly turn the conversation from Elizabethan to contemporary drama, on which he chats in his best demi-tasse manner. No longer...
Three men of Des Moines?Carl C. Proper, magazine publisher; Will E. Tone, President of Tone Brothers' Spice Company; George W. Webber, Secretary of the Des Moines Y.M.C.A.?were in the habit of meeting in a quiet way, often at a certain camp which nestled in the wilderness outside the city, at which times they discussed ideals. Their little group grew rapidly. They determined to invite Dr. Mott. They invited also George Sherwood Eddy, preeminent among the exhorters of Americans and others, who speaks always with clenched fist, contracted brow, tight-drawn lips. He bullies men's consciences...