Word: toning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...considerations (as was done in the destroyer deal), 3) of loans to Britain. Of the alternatives, the last was the most likely. If so, the President didn't let it worry him. He was looking better-his grey pallor of Armistice Day had given way to a healthier tone...
...tone is there from the start when Gaudio's camera looks on the lifeless landscape of the rubber plantation. Moving slowly, it picks up the dripping of tapped rubber trees, a thatched hut filled with sleeping natives, another hut hung with drying rubber strips, glides beside a fence to where a pigeon is drowsing. The silence is heavy with long, sharp shadows. Suddenly a shot splits the still air, the pigeon flaps off, a figure staggers onto the porch of a house in the background...
Despite these "administrative difficulties," the College should find a way to make sure that every undergraduate does some constructive written work. One solution would be to assign extra assistants to those courses which are best adapted for original research theses. Another remedy would be to tone up the tutorial system so that everyone, whether on Plan A or Plan B, would have to write at least one paper a year on a subject which would require analysis of source material. At present some tutors demand b1-weekly essays while others see their tutees no more often than twice a term...
...those who would like to have permanently on hand Franchot Tone's recitation of England, My England; or John Barrymore's Hamlet soliloquy; or Joe E. Brown's story about the cat and the drunken mouse, Specialty Record Co. offers these and other movie star recordings...
Because it shies clear of familiar Hollywood concepts of good & evil, is buoyed by lively literate dialogue and another of Mitchell's poignant performances, and decorated with the shadowy photography of Lee Garmes, Angels Over Broadway rings with a specious tone of superiority. Cinemaudiences are likely to find later that, like a polished apple, its handsome exterior conceals the same old fruit...