Word: dulcetly
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After the University band played through the dulcet strains of "Let Me Call You Sweetheart," Dartmouth almost pulled off the greatest deception since the invention of the forward pass. A speedy group raced from the stands and snared the world's biggest drum, which band managers had returned the night before from Chicago, where it had undergone extensive repairs, and started to run with it towards the goal line...
...Cronin reported that the Place took on poetic hues in the candlelight, a ceiling of darkness closed in each booth, and voices whispered in a romantic hush. "But we don't plan to make either the candles or the dulcet voices a permanent part of our atmosphere," Cronin said. "We will await future happy misadventures in the Cambridge electric power for repetitions of the occasion...
...farmer often uses "very slipshod methods" in selecting a wife. "The eligible-bachelor farmer falls victim of a moonlight night, or a dulcet voice, or a sniff of My Sin, never giving a thought as to whether or not the creature in his arms can strip a cow dry or hoist the back end of a wagon . . . Farmers don't usually fall in love with the deep-bosomed, wide-hipped, somewhat unimaginative women who make the best farm wives...
...been going on ever since the end of World War II, when France nationalized all its radio stations, thereby erasing all paid advertising from the air. Andorra refused to play ball. Unduly proud of its own radio station-"Here Here Andorra" -and of its beautiful lady announcer, whose dulcet commercials had earned more than 1,000 offers of marriage for herself and many more advertisers' pesetas for her employers, it kept both working at top speed, entertaining and selling not only its own people but a goodly section of southwest France as well...
Once, when the Philippine Sea was heading away from Korea for rest and relaxation in Yokosuka, Japan, it was Ramsey's idea to give his crew three extra hours of sleep beyond the normal 0600 reveille. At 0900, a dulcet announcement was piped over the ship's intercom: "Good morning. This is your friendly boatswain's mate. It's oh-nine-hundred and time to turn out. If you are hungry after your long sleep, there are coffee and sweet rolls waiting for you in the galley." Whereupon the ship's Dixieland band crashed into...