Word: toning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American defense treaty and Argentina. He began it: "Do you support the State Department policy of-" Harry Truman leaned forward, interrupted. Said he: the State Department has no policy unless he supports it. Then, smiling, he asked the newsman to complete his question. Midsentence, the President interrupted again. His tone was briskly emphatic: whatever the State Department's policy on Argentina, it would have his support-or it would not be a policy...
Reconciliation under pressure between the impatience of returning students and Harvard's intellectual responsibilities forced a tone of urgency into President Conant's annual report to the Board of Overseers, released Saturday, on the state of the University...
Because of Him (Universal) is Hollywood whimsy of the more expensive sort. Deanna Durbin, silver-voiced and platinum-salaried ($326,491 for 1944, tops for cinemactresses), warbles her way through it with no perceptible embarrassment-which is more than can be said for Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone and other members of the cast...
...story: an oyster-bar waitress (Deanna) yearns for a stage career and dupes an eminent actor (Laughton) into signing a letter of recommendation while he is engrossed in an oyster stew. Eventually she is enfolded in the arms of handsome Playwright Tone. Among the intervening spectacles...
Good sequence: Playwright Tone, hat brim down and coat collar up, eavesdropping among the customers out for air during the second-act intermission of his new play...