Word: toning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hearst bought several years ago. Soon he would be off again to his 30,000-acre suzerainty in California, trailing across the continent clouds of a glory peculiarly dear to a newspaper man. After dinner he gave his guests a taste of that glory?showed them a Hearst-Metro-tone newsreel of himself as he had appeared debarking from Europe in Manhattan the fortnight before, grinning broadly, waving his hat, clutching the Stars & Stripes...
...Fascist, devoted Augusto Turati is remarkably mild, even reasonable, conciliatory. He was made secretary general in 1926 to tone down the excesses of his predecessor, Roberto Farinacci, notorious leader of Fascist Selvaggi ("Savages") who blustered about Italy smashing doors, knocking out teeth, kicking pits of stomachs. Today, with the Fascist Party comparatively civilized, there is talk in Rome that Civilizer Turati is perhaps "too mild." His successor is not. Up and down Italy nervous people know that Giovanni Battista Giuriati has metaphorically bashed and smashed from Fiume to the Quirinal. But, "man of iron" though he is, the new secretary...
...camera. The effectiveness of the pastel-tinted act from Pagliacci in The Call of the Flesh makes it seem likely that the cinema will have its opera and that it will bring into existence a new type of opera star-men and women who may lack the volume or tone necessary in true operatic amphitheatres, but who will have the good looks which cinema audiences, perhaps rightfully, demand. Other famed singers who have been successful in more or less serious vocal efforts for the sound-camera: John McCormack (Song of My Heart), a failure on the grand opera stage...
Nominee Cross's first act to prove his political mastery was to have Patrick Brett O'Sullivan, onetime Congressman, named chairman of the State Committee and Joseph H. Tone, secretary. Promising the Republicans "a whale of a fight," he hurried back to his Yale Review office at New Haven, prepared for an old-fashioned "cracker barrel" campaign...
...advice on marriage, divorce and birth control and recommendation that adherents be permitted to take the sacraments in any consecrated building if an Anglican or Episcopal church were not handy, dealt mostly with general church problems, little with problems of personal belief. In subject the resolutions were general, in tone cautious...