Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good deal depends on the tone of voice...
Names are funny, too. Juliet does some speculating about where-fore Romeo is Romeo and not Caspar Milquetoast or some other moniker that would rid the young pigeons of the family barriers between them. And the tone of her voice--that tender caress of a voice, instinct with primal passion and heart-throb and love--gives a musical quality and dramatic force that's been associated with it ever since. If you said to us "Romeo" and we replied "Romeyback" that would be that. But when Juliet, atop the rose-kirtled balcony, breathes out on the sweet smelling evening...
...what got us into this idea of the value of a tone of voice was an incident we witnessed on Holyoke Street. The whole thing could have taken place in pantomime save for the final remark, and that depended not on itself, but entirely on the tone of voice with which the ladies mouthed it. We'll leave you to say it over for yourself...
...poorly acted by Robert Young and Ann Sothern; Young is one of these boys who finds that looking peeved, frowning, flouncing about and shouting too loud is the only way he can impress personality on you. And last, it's an attempt at the type of comedy the Crawford-Tone, Loy-Powell successes have made popular, and consequently it spoils the effectiveness of the main feature...
...infer that she could hardly be considered American. (Kipling does not mention his brother-in-law, Wolcott Balestier, who collaborated with him on the Naulahka, and with whom he quarreled.) The U. S. where he spent four years after his marriage, he mentions often, always in the same tone. "Reporters came from papers in Boston which I presume believed itself to be civilized and demanded interviews. I told them I had nothing to say. 'If ye hevn't, guess we'll make ye say something.' So they went away and lied copiously. . . ." He speaks...