Word: toning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italy, the black market took on an official tone. When he asked the customs inspector at the Littoria airport to exchange dollars, the inspector regretted that he could give only the official exchange of 220 lire. But he pointed to a bus driver who would give 500. By haggling in Rome the adman...
...City to meet, marry and spend a honeymoon with G.I. Guy Madison, who is on leave from the Canal Zone. They have a hard time finding each other and, tied up by legal complications, an even harder time getting married. The hardest time of all is had by Franchot Tone, a U.S. consulate workhorse who is repeatedly required to help them out. In the course of getting helped, Miss Temple transfers her attentions briefly to Mr. Tone, and nearly wrecks his romance with Mexican Socialite Lina Romay...
...then spreading a simple, primitive and powerful music; but the Duke was talking a new pulsing and sensual language. He had not yet heard of Stravinsky, and he had quit studying harmony after his first lesson, but he was using dissonance and rhythm, and thick, murky six-and eight-tone cluster chords in ways that were not recommended in the harmony books...
Last week, Luther Evans, the 44-year-old Librarian of Congress, looked up from his books long enough to rehearse a request, in a tone bolder than librarians habitually use. Though the House Appropriations Committee is slashing almost every Government agency in sight, Evans will ask for $11,346,000-nearly twice last year's alltime high. There is a crisis in his library's crates: millions of new and wartime acquisitions (among them the Booker T. Washington and George W. Norris papers) are still unsorted and uncatalogued. The library needs double its present staff...
There was one thing to be done. The Bursar had announced in his usual insolent tone that you couldn't graduate without paying the last bill, and that home addresses "must" be registered "in writing" before you dared leave. He always dreaded the various scrapes with administrative edges that were scattered through Harvard. After the Bursar he turned up in the check-cashing line at the Coop but that, too, was unnecessary, he remembered. One more day in Cambridge...