Show 31 mow etow III 18 started E a n aby fen fean melvion Vel vion suiting the action to the wore the action to the word ts 0 lie he hauled olt off and landed a punch square on the jaw laying the man out at liis ills feet we have that from a boxing story in a current magazine quite a contrast in language the vernacular hauling oil off and the elegant suiting the action to the word though the latter Is a familiar phrase in modern writing to say something and then do it to threaten or describe an action and then carry it out la Is to suit W he action to the word in its origin however the expression had a more technical significance the words being addressed to actors who were being instructed as to their gestures and told to suit the action to the word we have the phrase from that famous passage in shakespeare where hamlet gives advice to the players by whose performance lie he expects to con found his mother and ills his uncle ue lie has bas just told tham not to overdo their gestures then be not too tame neither but let your own discretion be your tutor suit the action to the word the word to the action with this special observance that you oer step not the modesty of nature Q bell syndicate ct service |