Word: toning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their highly-conversational love affair as employees of a House Beautiful-type magazine. They go to Indiana to write a feature story on an average American "June wedding," and get mixed up in the romantic affairs of two young couples. Everything ends happily--but not stickily, as the antiseptic tone of half-seriousness which characterizes the performances of Montgomery and Miss Davis is fortunately maintained throughout...
...Plan entirely, rather than have the Ruhr in German hands. French Communist claims that "pro-German cartelsympathizers" have put the deal across now look all too correct to non-Communists in both France and the world outside. The Queuille government has also expressed dismay, but in a necessarily feebler tone, since it is trying to work in harmony with the other Western nations. Battered by left and right, the French government has been gravely embarrassed, and its shaky grasp of power further weakened...
Yard residents witnessed a murder last night on the steps of Widener Library a little after 7 p.m. Sergeant Toomey, who was forced to stand by helpless during the killing, described the assasin as "a two-tone brown owl, about 14 inches tall, weighing around 10 pounds." His victim was an unidentified gray pigeon...
Light is studied in the same way. Since human eyes get tired when forced to adapt themselves continually to contrasts of brightness and dimness, lighting experts are trying to tone down the bright spots and light up the dim spots. A properly lighted room, by modern standards, is apt to have walls painted in varied shades and colors. The light comes from large, diffuse sources. Instruments such as typewriters and blackboards are apt to be colored in a way that does not contrast too much with the rest of the "light environment." (But light experts are careful not to eliminate...
Miss Sitwell is not always successful in her new incantatory style. Sometimes her symbols (the Sun, Gold, and Blood for life; the Moon, the Bone, the Cold for death) become monotonous, and sometimes her apocalyptic tone leads her to speechmaking instead of to poetry...