Word: sotto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Just a second." (To a Mr. Tree, sotto voce) "It is a matter of recognition...
...spit it out. Still most common, because it takes less time, is the old-fashioned method. The anxious soldier is given rest, sedatives, food and psychiatric pep talks. These are usually given so that all the ward may hear - only the most personal part of the discussion is sotto voce. The question is asked repeatedly: "You want to go back and try again, don't you?" The man is led to think that giving up is dishonorable, "that family, friends, comrades and country expect him to return and finish...
...less exciting than it promises to be. For Director Lewis Milestone has forsaken action for a series of static scenes bowed down under too much talk. The talk is sometimes funny, seldom convincing. But oldtime Actor Colman, now a greying 50, turns in a neat performance in his offhand, sotto voce manner, and England's Anna Lee (in her first big-time U.S. cinema role) is a first-rate Caroline...