Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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This change of tone suggested that perhaps Franklin Roosevelt had really touched the Axis' quick with his increasing and increasingly pointed measures to strengthen the Axis' great foe. It suggested even more strongly that the Axis had decided to take advantage of existing isolationist sentiment in the U. S. to divide and confuse the biggest "pluto-democracy," in order to slow up aid to Britain at a vital moment...
This unrest, it seemed clear from the tone of the press, was displayed chiefly by the well-to-do and the fairly well-to-do, those elements which have always been, at best, lukewarm supporters of Fascism. They are the elements which have been most loyal to King Vittorio Emanuele,who at the time of the Ethiopian crisis was supposed to have said: "If Italy wins, I will be Emperor of Ethiopia but if Italy loses, I will be King of Italy." He may have been thinking along the same lines last week. There were rumors that Crown Prince Umberto...
...Last year the U. S. imported $853,094 worth of reeds from Italy and Germany for American-made harmonicas. Faced with a shortage this year, Philadelphia's Harmonica Reed Corp. and Chicago's American Harmonica Corp. handed the problem to their reed experts. Foreign reeds were tone-tested by hand. Lacking skilled labor for that job, the experts invented a machine which not only tests U. S. reeds for tone but also cuts them to size and rejects imperfect strips...
...traditional and obligatory sentiment, drowned in cliche, they nevertheless have an innocence in which, as in a wavy mirror, genuine emotions are somehow reflected. Eugene Field's Little Boy Blue and My Mother's Faith are next door to chromos, but they have an intact nostalgic tone with a true power to move. Stephen Foster's Old Folks at Home, even without the music and even thanks in part to the minstrel-show spelling, has gentle, real beauty (but only one line is about Mother). Yet that newspaper level of verse is half brother to folk poetry...
...road and the radio with my dance band and that way you keep pretty well in touch with the public's taste. We hope that as a result our music will be especially hep. Take that "Go Away Blues" in the first act. That's a legitimate boog tone with five lyrics: and it's a very comfortable eight boater. You watch the audience tonight. I think you'll see that they really...