Word: toning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exportation. Under the Versailles Treaty Germany was required to supply Poland with 300,000 tons yearly. The U. S. sells to all comers, principally Canada and Japan. The latter has recently been a heavy buyer. Some of Director Schwartz's best efforts have been in raising the tone of the trade. Ten years ago it was not uncommon for a steel mill to receive a carload of scrap "top-dressed" with meaty chunks of good steel that concealed a load of bed steads, old fenders, tin cans, other metals and alloys which would ruin a batch of steel...
...these "three new stories of the West" Author Gather's readers may be surprised by discovering none of the pastel coloring of Shadows on the Rock. They are more in the tone of Author Gather's earlier books?My Antonia, A Lost Lady. With the rest of Author Gather's work, they share the charm of an artistry that is warm, simple and intelligent, the charm of a writer who feels about her characters somewhat as Doctor Burleigh feels about old Neighbor Rosicky: "The doctor picked up his stethoscope and frowned at it. ... He wished it had been telling tales...
...Though he lisps, the tone and personality of General Balbo are pugnacious, virile, truculent. *Blackest stain on the reputation of Blackshirt Benito Mussolini is the widespread notion that he personally ordered the assassination of the multi-millionaire Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti, who was unquestionably done to Death by Fascists (TIME, June...
Women. With considerably more elation than was evidenced by the male delegates and alternates, 600 of whom canceled their hotel and seat reservations. Republican ladies trooped to their third convention. They raised their party's vocal tone, but those to whom attention was paid were chiefly the wives or relatives of well-known men. Mrs. George Horace Lorimer, wife of the Saturday Evening Post's editor, was alternate for sick Boss William S. Vare of Philadelphia, "hero" of the 1928 nomination of Herbert Hoover; Mrs. Ellis A. Yost, sister-in-law of Michigan's football coach, directed...
...Hardly," and the tone implied, so the Vagabond hoped, that the question was as ill-timed as if Lancelot, baiting Arthur, might ask if he had seen "Shanghai Express." But age is the only anachronism for youth and bitterness passed unnoticed...