Word: toning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Better built, more attractive homes, more stylish and durable clothes could also be readily available. With precise enthusiasm, Prophet Moulton gives such detailed examples of potential progress as non-warp, non-scratch, non-splinter pleasure boats, and plastic violins which might all but rival the Stradivarius in tone...
...major party leaders tempered their tone. Socialist Kurt Schumacher expressed "appreciation that the Allies, especially the Anglo-Saxons, have made serious efforts to help Germany." Socialists, Christian Democrats and Free Democrats agreed that Allied troops and security agencies should stay to prevent Russian aggression, but asked that Allied controls over German affairs be abandoned...
...read the article with quite some surprise, not to mention disgust. The tone . . . was deplorable. In short, it sounded to me as though TIME might be harboring a little ill feeling toward Masonry...
...Tell an intoxicated person]: 'If you will come with me there is a friend in the lobby who would like to speak with you.' This statement cannot offend and being in a suggestive tone will be apt to be carried into effect...
...pieces, there are two mildly amusing Broadway stories and over three dozen sketches written between 1907 and 1915 in Runyon's youthful, pre-formula days. One of them, a hobo story called "The Informal Execution of Soupbone Pew," is a report of a murder told in a bantering tone reminiscent of Ring Lardner. Others are gentle spoofs on his old home town in the West, sketches of Army life in the Spanish-American War, or idyllic reminiscences of childhood...