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Word: voce (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Aug. 11, 1941 | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

...bill appropriating money for the U. S. farmers could be passed viva voce in the Senate the minute it is introduced, but the Senate would never consider doing it that way. The "orderly process" is to study a House-passed bill, such as this year's $714,000,000 farm measure, find places to drape on added gifts, then pass it, with every Senator given his chance to roar devotion to U. S. agriculture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: The Senate Loves the Farmer | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

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