Word: toning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Artillery, his superiors had no objections. After the war he wrote a book called The Service of Supply in which he minced no words, spared no names, and failed to ask the War Department's permission to publish it. The Inspector General called the volume "unmilitary in tone and tenor and at times intemperate in both. . . . Among the uninformed it will bring ridicule upon the War Department." Also unmilitary in tone was an annual report General Hagood was once supposed to have written: "Nothing to report...
...Thus far in 1936," wrote President Cunningham, "the unprecedentedly severe weather has impeded retail trade, especially in stores serving rural communities, and likewise made it difficult for buyers to come to market. . . . The tone of business is good, and we have every confidence that as soon as weather becomes normal, increases in volume will resume...
...Franchot Tone is the leading example of a boy who went to college and then became a big shot in the movies...
...Marjorie Edwards was well above the average. She exhibited a real flair for the violin, fast-flying fingers that found the notes surely, an earnest sensitive approach to the music she played. Even so, finicky critics refused to pronounce her ripe for a concert career. The quality of her tone was often small and immature, best suited to the soft feathery Cuckoo which delighted her audience so much that she had to play it twice...
...program is almost entirely manly, outdoor stuff. Second on the bill is "Fish from Hell", the log of a fishing expedition off the west coast of Mexico, featuring such gory delights as the death struggle between a whale and a sword fish. A Silly Symphony and Fox Movie tone News fill in the gaps...