Word: toning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greatest danger of an incident touching off a European war lay in the daily increasing irritability of Englishmen and Italians as their war boats and trade vessels elbowed each other in the Mediterranean. With the tone of reporting an Italian atrocity, the British steamer Cairo City radioed London papers that her flag-salutes to Italian war boats were not being returned "although there is still a rigid rule of the sea requiring the salute...
Married. Franchot Tone. 30, cinemactor, son of President Frank Jerome Tone of Carborundum Co. (see p. 34 ); and Joan Crawford (Lucille Le Sueur Cassin). 31, cinemactress, divorced wife of Nicholas Ullman Jr. (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.); in Englewood Cliffs...
Many a proud father, hearing that his son is to be honored at Commencement for achievement in college, journeys thither to witness the salute. Last week Cinemactor Franchot Tone, hearing that his father was to be honored for achievement in science and industry, journeyed to Washington to attend a dinner of the Electrochemical Society. There he was joined by his brother Frank Jerome ("Jerry"), Carborundum Co. sales executive, onetime Cornell baseballer. There Franchot and Frank saw their father, Carborundum Co.'s President Frank Jerome Tone, 67 this week, receive $1,000 and the Edward Goodrich Acheson medal "for outstanding...
...were trained to be sold as sopranos, not only for the choruses in theatres, but also, strange to state, for the choirs of the Catholic churches of Italy, where their unnatural voices were highly prized, and found ready sale. Those castrati whose voices did not attain merchantable pitch and tone, became useless and valueless commodities in Italy, and they were shamelessly sold into slavery by the so-called civilized and Christian Italians to serve as eunuchs in the harems of the Infidels of Northern Africa and Turkey. Following Pope Leo's comparatively recent ban upon the use of castrati...
...hymnal. Against strong opposition, the commission voted to include Auld Lang Syne and the famed Irish Londonderry Air for hymns beginning It singeth low in every heart and Above the hills of time the Cross is gleaming. The broad, soaring principal theme of Jan Sibelius' tone poem Finlandia has been reharmonized, paired with a 16th Century lyric...