Word: toning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reader who can grit his teeth against all Grandma's "Mary darlings" and "Mary sweets," and survive all her gushing over Helen, the method has its points. It saves Helen from having to blow her own horn, and it makes for a fairly frank, highly chatty tone...
...Saradjeff was the son of a father and mother both of whom played the bells, and when he came to this country, he had already composed 132 symphonies for the Russian carillon. It was said that he could recognize any of the 4000 bells in Moscow by its tone...
...Yahd" accent is not unpleasant as is claimed, he asserted. "It's all right to say 'cawn't' and 'bawth' if it is done in a nice, musical tone," he stated...
...Onyx Club has closed and it looks like for good. . . . Sonny Dunham of Casa Loma fame, starting another band again. . . . Not content with raising general hell with the Metropolitan Opera and its "great gold curtain," blind pianist Alee Templeton has just developed a fifteen tone scale. The only instrument he can find which it will work on is an old zither, so unfortunately his invention is a bit limited...
...only operate to deceive and stupefy us." His argument: that the choice before the next several generations is "between the formation of a new Christian culture, and the acceptance of a pagan one." Eliot's idea of a Christian culture is not as unrealistic as his High Anglican tone may make it seem; nor as simple as revivalist Christians might think...