Word: toning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Creasing his checks the familiar professorial smile was smiled, and in disarming kindly tone he asked if one of his pupils had read a speech of Patrick Henry's, assigned in a book of documents compiled by the professor and nicely bound by the Oxford Press at a price suitable for a work by a great scholar...
...MOVIELAND, a Phi Beta Kappa key is about as useful as a recommendation from a high school dramatics coach, Franchot Tone wears the key from Cornell. As Earnest Sharpe, Actor Erik Rhodes earned one at the University of Oklahoma. Though he hasn't yet attained the eminence of Brother Tone, Erik Rhodes works just as steadily in pictures and in due time will make almost as much money. You saw him first as the dapper, sputtering foreigner in the Astaire Rogers film, Gay Divorce. He stayed in Hollywood to play in top Hat. New he is likely...
...gold ones instead. Mrs. Roosevelt last week revealed that the President asked the Commission of Fine Arts for permission to replace Mrs. Roosevelt's with a red damask set costing $4,000. Other proposed changes: a new piano to replace the gold piano in the East Room (its tone is failing); $10,000 worth of air conditioning equipment to cool individual rooms in the White House (complete air conditioning would cost some...
...Auden's new poems are dedicated to his wife, Erika Mann, the daughter of Thomas Mann, and the dedicatory lines set the tone...
...mildly uttered, Der Führer may at any time characteristically revert with angry vigor, making it mean then that Germany "claims" the colonies now under the British, French and other League Mandates "taken away from her after the World War," but such was not the meaning his amicable tone conveyed last week. †Reichsbank President Schacht, Foreign Minister von Neurath, Finance Minister von Krosigk, Chief of Staff General von Fritsch, Admiral of the Fleet Raeder, Rübenach (Transport) and Seldte (Labor...