He took small roles in three short silent comedies starring his wife Elsa Lanchester, Daydreams, Blue Bottles and The Tonic ( all 1928 ) which had been specially written for her by H. G. Wells.

One Dialogue contains a story about a genie ( from the Arabic " Djinn ") and various " tonics " ( of both the liquid and musical varieties ), which is titled " Djinn and Tonic ".

* Amphigorey Too, 1975 ( ISBN 0-399-50420-6 ) — contains The Beastly Baby, The Nursery Frieze, The Pious Infant, The Evil Garden, The Inanimate Tragedy, The Gilded Bat, The Iron Tonic, The Osbick Bird, The Chinese Obelisks ( bis ), The Deranged Cousins, The Eleventh Episode, Untitled Book, The Lavender Leotard, The Disrespectful Summons, The Abandoned Sock, The Lost Lions, Story for Sara Alphonse Allais, The Salt Herring Charles Cros, Leaves from a Mislaid Album, and A Limerick

* Tonic Sol-fa ( a cappella group ), a quartet from Minnesota

A Tonic for the Troops was released in the U. S. on Columbia in February 1979, with two tracks from The Boomtown Rats substituted for tracks on the UK version.

It turns out that Mammy Yokum's Yokumberry Tonic, which she makes from the one-of-a-kind Yokumberry tree growing outside her home, is what has made Abner so strong and handsome.

Spaces in Manhattan that supported Downtown music from the 1960s on included the Judson Memorial Church, The Kitchen, Experimental Intermedia, Roulette, the Knitting Factory, Dance Theater Workshop, Tonic, the Gas Station, the Paula Cooper Gallery, and others.

He is a consultant with political and public relations consultancy Halogen Communications Ltd, as well as J. Chandler & Co., distributor of Buckfast Tonic Wine and has written a number of books including Scotland First: Truth and Consequences ( 2004 ), Global Scots: Voices from Afar ( with Kenny MacAskill ) ( 2006 ) ( published in the UK as Global Scots: Making It in the Modern World ), Wherever the Saltire Flies ( with Kenny MacAskill ) ( 2006 ) and Scotland: The Road Divides ( with Tom Brown ) ( 2007 ).

D ' Indy ( 1903, p. 117 ), who analyses the chord as on IV after Riemann's transcendent principle ( as phrased by Serge Gut: " the most classic succession in the world: Tonic, Subdominant, Dominant " ( 1981, p. 150 )) and rejects the idea of an added " lowered seventh ", eliminates, " all artificial, dissonant notes, arising solely from the melodic motion of the voices, and therefore foreign to the chord ," finding that the Tristan chord is " no more than a subdominant in the key of A, collapsed in upon itself melodically, the harmonic progression represented thus:

While it cannot be doubted that Hullah would have won more success if he had not opposed the Tonic Sol-Fa movement so strenuously, it must be confessed that his work was of great value, for he kept constantly in view unimpressed upon all who followed him or learnt from him the supreme necessity of maintaining the artistic standard of the music taught and studied, and of not allowing trumpery compositions to usurp the place of good music on account of the greater ease with which they could be read.

Beginning on March 19, After Hours was replaced by Tonic, a two-hour block of light jazz programming hosted by Katie Malloch ( Monday to Friday ) and Tim Tamashiro ( Saturday and Sunday ) from 6 p. m. to 8 p. m. ( since moved to 8 p. m. to 10 p. m .) local time, as Radio 2 began a formatting change intended by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to increase the amount of jazz, contemporary popular music and indie rock, as well as boost the amount of Canadian content, in Radio 2's schedule.

Recent installments include Christina Perri performing her hit " Jar of Hearts ", Dan Wilson performing the hit he penned with Adele " Someone Like you ", David performing his hit with Kelly Clarkson " Because of You ", Emerson Hart from Tonic performing " If You Could Only See ", and many others.

The weeknight version of the jazz program Tonic, hosted by Katie Malloch, is broadcast from CBM-FM in Montreal, to the entire Radio 2 network, from Monday to Friday.

:* Jig ' n ' Tonic ( Cradle back to belly piledriver ) – adopted from Jigsaw

Tonic, a similarly themed program hosted from Montreal by Katie Malloch on weeknights and from Calgary by Tim Tamashiro on weekends, debuted in its place on March 19.

The weekend version of the jazz program Tonic is broadcast from CBR-FM to Radio 2 on Saturday and Sunday, hosted by Tim Tamashiro.

Frederick Moore Clements, who became wealthy from selling the family health restorer, Clements Tonic, owned near William Street until his death in 1920.

Tonic received two Grammy nominations from Head on Straight, including one for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for " Take Me As I Am ", and one for Best Rock Album.

In 2000, Tonic allowed their song " Mean To Me " from their album Sugar to be released as a single from the soundtrack album for the Warner Bros. film Gossip, which was directed by Academy Award-winning director Davis Guggenheim.

The first verifiable account that Tonic was reuniting came in November 2008 via an announcement from band member Russo, confirming new tour dates and a forthcoming studio album.

The album was jointly produced by Tonic and Nathaniel Kunkel, with the song " Release Me " chosen as the first single from the album.

Tonic spent much of the next two years touring, adding to its reputation as a relentlessly gigging band.

In addition to extensive touring Tonic produced other work, including songs for feature film soundtracks.

In March 2007, Reid played with Jamaaladeen Tacuma, and G. Calvin Weston at Tonic in NYC, and Tritone in Philadelphia, which led them to record as Free Form Funky Freqs with the title of the recording called Urban Mythology Volume 1.

Interest in the band was kindled in the late 1990s when Alive / Total Energy Records released a studio recording of the then-unheard song " Electrophonic Tonic ", the song that was to have been the B-side of " City Slang ".

On the album Everything You Know Is Wrong by the comedy troupe The Firesign Theatre, the recording's narrator plays a wire recording of a medicine show featuring a " Dr. Firesign " promoting " Chief Dancing Knockout's Pyramid Pushover Paste " and " Don Bruhaha's Inca Hell-Oil Tonic ".

After continuing to tour on a regular basis into late 2011, Tonic announced they began writing and recording new songs in January 2012.

In Washington, the scientists testing Yokumberry Tonic dream of a time when life will be totally controlled by science (" Oh Happy Day ").

Some specialty programs, including The Vinyl Cafe, Vinyl Tap and one edition each of the nightly Tonic and Canada Live, also air on CBC Radio One in different time slots.

The name Bunter was in common use at the time, due to the popularity of a patent medicine known as Bunter's Nervine Tonic.

Tonic water ( or Indian tonic water ) is a carbonated soft drink, in which quinine is dissolved.

The monastery's most successful product is Buckfast Tonic Wine, a strong tonic wine which the monks began making ( to a French recipe ) in the 1890s.

Wells ( Bluebottles, Daydreams and The Tonic ) in which Laughton made brief appearances.

However, Ford introduced an entry-level model called the Tonic, a rebadged version of the last version of KF hatchack Mazda 323 ( VI gen ), which was sold until 2003.

From this developed a design and production factory that specialised in the manufacture of airborne and ground equipment for target aircraft and missile fields including the Tonic towed target, which can be carried and streamed by a Jindivik 3A.

It was originally sold under the name Vim Tonic, which Nichols shortened to Vimto in 1912.

In British India, it was mixed with the tonic water consumed for the anti-malarial properties of quinine, which lead to the creation of the Gin and Tonic.

Forest Gate has various associations with music and acting: it was for many years the home of the Tonic Sol-fa College of John Curwen, which taught large numbers of people to play music without learning conventional notation.

His compositions, which remained popular for some years after his death in 1884, consisted mainly of ballads ( such as his musical adaptation of Charles Kingsley's poem, " Three Fishers "); but his importance in the history of music is owing to his exertion in popularizing musical education, and his persistent opposition to the Tonic sol-fa system, which had a success he could not foresee.

He contributed many notable storylines for all three of them, including Freleng's Hare Do ( 1949 ), Bad Ol ' Putty Tat ( 1949 ), Bunker Hill Bunny ( 1950 ) and Big House Bunny ( 1950 ); Jones ' Hare Tonic ( 1945, an early success for both of them ) and Broom-Stick Bunny ( 1956 ); and McKimson's Hillbilly Hare ( 1950 ), Lovelorn Leghorn ( 1951 ) and Cat-Tails for Two ( 1953 ), the last of which was Speedy Gonzales ' first appearance.

Tonic immobility has also been used to describe the paralysis which often immobilizes animals, such as rodents or birds, when they feel threatened by a predator.

It wasn't until late 2008 Tonic became active again, embarking on a tour and releasing a greatest-hits compilation, all of which served as a prelude to their fourth studio album, 2010's Tonic.