Word: toning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...overrun with trolley cars, all its citizens, including the ballplayers, were trolley-dodgers. The team's later name of Robins is pure tribute to the manager's enveloping personality. He is recognized wherever he goes in Brooklyn and willingly discusses managerial tactics with taxi-drivers, countermen, policemen, waiters. His tone in explaining his methods with these interlocutors is sometimes apologetic. He says: "My gosh! You should hear the bawling out I get from the wife when we lose a game...
British officials have become alarmed in recent months over the persistently impartial tone of press and public opinion in the U. S. as India's Nationalist troubles continue. Greatly they grieved for "gross inaccuracies, obvious misinterpretations" in U. S. news stories.* Dr. Thompson's little pamphlet, issued last week was one of Britain's first overt efforts to arouse sympathy for England's cause in India...
...caught red-handed or with a blissfully clear conscience, had just made a most gracious gesture toward Italy. He had announced that work on the new war boats laid down in the French naval program will be suspended for six months. In Italy the Fascist press took its friendliest tone toward France in weeks, not forgetting to hail M. Briand's announcement as a great diplomatic victory for // Duce...
...office and the shady new Northampton estate. The Beeches. In returning to his public. Citizen Coolidge brought with him most of the dignity and restraint he had exercised with such success in the White House. Again to the fore were the elevated moral inflection and the conservative economic tone which characterized practically all of his presidential speeches...
...London the press naturally took a favorable tone toward Sir John Simon's well meant and laboriously conceived recommendations for giving India a mite more freedom-all except the Daily Herald, news organ closest to Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald. This paper recalled that in 1927, when the Simon Commission was organized, Scot MacDonald, then out of office, prophesied: "The Simon Report will give 1,000 reasons for just a little more tutelage." According to the Herald this prophecy has now been fulfilled...