Word: toning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even the isolationist Chicago Tribune hailed the frank, dignified tone of the speech. But next day some 20 Manhattan reporters gave the Ambassador a going-over for 50 minutes. What about India? What about Palestine? What about U. S. troops? In long, patient, gnarled sentences the Ambassador labored out a careful reply to each. He did not let it appear that he knew he was being needled...
...Chungking passage of the bill "marked a turning point in world affairs." In Athens the newspaper Kathemerini echoed U. S. isolationists, but in a different tone: "American help will go as far as dispatching military forces to Europe if necessary." In Batavia the Nieuws van den Dag voor N. I. heard "the entire civilized world heave a sigh of relief...
...discussion of war aims, the Dunster House Forum was singularly unoptimistic in tone last night. Seven Faculty members used the topic as a jumping-off point for their analyses of war and its economic causes and consequences. The results were enlightening but hardly happy...
Nice Girl? resembles a shiny Rolls-Royce that won't run. Carried in its cast is a selection of Hollywood's most polished performers-'Robert Benchley, Walter Brennan, Helen Broderick, Franchot Tone. But their efforts to keep the aimless, insipid Richard Connell-Gladys Lehman screen play afloat are like the haphazard courage of doomed men. Benchley as a widower highschool principal with three lightheaded daughters (Deanna, Anne Gwynne, Ann Gillis) looks as if he were trying to get by unrecognized. Since there is no observable plot, the rest of the characters just meander around the Benchley household...
...needs. Milton is such a voice, as Wordsworth discovered during the Napoleonic crisis: "Milton! thou should' st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee!" History is again making Milton a modern. His voice, too loud, too austere, too commanding for workaday use, has become the tone in which troubled men think...