Word: toning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lesson in public relations it has been taught in the last few weeks, Harvard might now find it expedient to demand some greater measure of tact, timeliness, and sober consideration from its representatives in political matters. It is not a gag which is necessary, but a more careful tone of voice, for complete political freedom is an idyllic and troublesome standard for Harvard in a city which takes such a literal interpretation of a liberal educational creed as does Cambridge...
...Editor Stearns brought his anthology up to date, and the 36 contributors (six of them the same as before) reflect a greatly changed U.S. In the new volume there is less discussion of sex and more of economics, politics, sociology, religion, psychiatry. More serious, it is less unified in tone, as a whole more searching, better documented, more thoughtful. The unabashed praise of advertising, written by Roy S. Durstine, president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, is at odds with the entire book...
...still selling at the rate of 800 a month. The disarming candor of Mrs. Lindbergh's writing is probably the biggest reason for its popularity, since she combines technical discussions of flight with humdrum, housewifely confessions of her fears while flying. Listen! The Wind has the same engaging tone as North to the Orient, includes some vivid recollections of tense hours over the Atlantic which give a better picture of transoceanic flying than any account...
...Maker of Heavenly Trousers), composed witty epigrams (A diplomat sometimes has to deal with people who appear to be stupid. Very often they are stupid. But it is better not to count on their stupidity). His humor is infectious; his jokes are good; his friends highly placed; his tone that mixture of arch indiscretion and frivolous reticence which is found nowhere on earth except in diplomats' autobiographies. But when readers consider that through the years of his hilarity wars and revolutions swept over Europe, that his daughters were fascinated by the corpses floating down Chinese rivers, they are likely...
...reported without confirmation today that Fuehrer Adolf Hitler has decided to order his armies to march on Czechosolavakia immediately if there is no prospect of a peaceful solution of the Czech crisis by 2 P.M. today--8 A.M., E.S.T. The report indicated that the Nazi Fuehrer, angered by the tone of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's speech in London last night, has decided to strike quickly...