Word: toning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agreed with Australia's Prime Minister John Curtin, last week in the U.S. , that there must be frequent consultations with the Commonwealth Prime Ministers. But, though the Dominions intend otherwise, his tone clearly showed that he was thinking of a Commonwealth centered in London, was uncertain whether he would get it. Said he: "The Mother Country-I must ask leave to use this name-anyhow, I think it is rather dangerous to plunge into a new nomenclature and I am not sure that anything like the Elder Sister Country would be a success. There was the old song...
...suspicion began to grow six weeks ago, however, when Fabien Sevitzky played Barrymore's Partita with the Indianapolis Symphony. And last week Eugene Ormandy led the Philadelphia Orchestra through a broadcast of Barrymore's In Memoriam, a warm, romantic, ingratiating tone poem dedicated to brother John. In connection with the broadcast, several hitherto unpublicized facts appeared: 1) Lionel Barrymore has been composing for the past 40 years; 2) he is as well acquainted with the techniques of composition as many a professional; 3) his unpublished compositions are numbered in the hundreds and include works for everything from solo...
...communication to the War Department, Lieut. Farr indicated the tone that Yanks would take, took a passing crack at phony warcasting. Wrote Farr...
...report, taking the rosiest possible tone while sticking to Government-collected facts, was generally well received. But it apparently will have little effect on Congress, where efforts will be made in both houses to rewrite portions of the Price Control Act, including amendments to bar subsidies and to provide for direct court appeal from OPA rulings...
...with Albert Lasker. He had just signed up Charlotte ("So Long Letty") Greenwood for his summer radio program while Bob Hope, "Pepsodent's No. 1 property," is on vacation. Luckman says: "Without looking I can tell the seasons of the year and the Crossley ratings just by the tone of Hope's voice when he phones me for a raise...