Word: dulcet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chance to show their contempt for the whole proceedings by singing of the things they were going to do to old Eli the Band, obligingly struck up "Moonlight and Roses." Its mournful notes may have been vaguely appropriate, but they did not seem so at the time. For the dulcet tones of popular melodies serve only to annoy the Stadium's frenzied occupants, whose demand will ever be for the trumpet's martial blare, and the cymbals' clash punctuating the tune of a familiar football song...
...there has existed a feeling in certain quarters that there was one undergraduate mood or type which was receiving no adequate expression. The answer would appear to be found in the Hound and Horn, whose bay is akin to a yelp from the Village and whose blast is more dulcet than shrill. Not a popular magazine in content, in fact apparently somewhat proud of its aloofness, its appeal is directed to the denizens of the candle-lit tea rooms, those flery spirits to whom James Joyce is an immortal and Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot minor prophets. The sincerity...
...Beethoven and Wagner, there was Bach?sacred solos and secular cantatas alike, including the drollery of "Aeolus Appeased" which, after writing it to entertain an honored old professor, Bach changed but slightly to celebrate a Polish king. Cincinnati also heard for the first time "La Primavera" of Ottorino Respighi, dulcet lyric on the text: "God is a Child, for His countenance is frank and truthful like that of a man filled with love...
Bounding kangaroos and the not yet forgotten dulcet voice of aging Dame Nellie Melba are all that "Australia" calls up in many a mind. Humans under 30 seldom consciously associate "Peach Melba" or "Toast Melba" (very thin, very brown) with the great one time singer who is the only world-famed Australian...
...tell me what to do with my 22-year old son?" was the request in the dulcet tones of a fond but foolish mother. He is very mischievous and misbehaved, and I simply can't do a thing with him. Do you think it a good idea to put him on a boat under a stern old sea captain all summer and not permit him to land...