Word: toning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opening" the largest peacetime budgets in Britain's history. Last week, before a crowded House of Commons, he again appeared with the little worn red-leather dispatch box carried by Gladstone, opened it and ceremoniously drew out his sheafs of paper and, in an uninspired, low, monotonous tone of voice, proceeded coldly to name astronomical figures the like of which Parliament had never heard...
...music typical of all periods from the loth Century to the present. The Columbia History's fifth and last volume gives a taste and a sniff of the 20th Century's principal musical styles, ranges from the romantic Schwarmerei of Richard Strauss and Mahler to the quarter-tone caterwauling of Kulturbolschewik Alois Haba...
...curator of paintings, put it together with sparkling good sense and humor. For each picture they provided background information, illuminating quotations, graceful homilies. In their observations on portraits of the late John D. Rockefeller (by John Singer Sargent) and J. P. Morgan (by Carlos Baca-Flor), they achieved a tone of perfect respect...
Threats of war in Europe have been one factor retarding U. S. business, but last week a significant incident spoke in an-other tone of voice. After waiting anxiously for days, businessmen heard Adolf Hitler speak (see p. 18). Promptly the London market spurted up and the New York market headed down-a pointed suggestion that the worries of U. S. business are made in the U. S. Two of those worries...
...knife and fork. And the only way in which any work of art is able to fulfill its function in society (and it does have a function) is by being placed where people gather to sit naturally, smoke, and talk in a normal, not a hushed, tone of voice. By introducing it to more familiar and pleasant surroundings it is not meant, however, the people should lounge around and "absorb" art while drinking Chianti in a smoke-field room. That a happy medium between the Bohemian aesthete and the straight-laced scholar can be reached is being very successfully proven...