Word: mellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been able to get to the heart of common people and rob them of their stories." Professor Dobie's many books on S. Southwest (Coronado's Chil dren, The Longhorns - TIME, March 17, 1941) glow with the lyric magic of the region's folk tales. His mellow, witty impressions of England, gathered in a year (1943-44) as professor of American history at Cambridge, are as vividly colored: he met and "robbed" many an English man in college commons, in pubs, manor houses, railway carriages, on country meadows and London sidewalks...
Married. Deems Taylor. 59, popular, mellow-toned composer-critic; and Lucille Watson-Little, 20, whom he met at the Florida winter headquarters of the current Ringling Bros. Circus, for which he arranged the music and she designed costumes; he for the second time, she for the first; in Arlington...
...poured through, shot south into the Hunsrück plateau. Resistance was almost nil. At the narrow Simmer River, the tankmen found the bridges intact, pressed on to Bad Kreuz-nach, junction of three rail lines and four highways. The goth tagged along on Gaffey's left, taking mellow old Rhine towns -Boppard, St. Goar, Bingen-like buttons from a ripped-open shirt...
Author Godden (Black Narcissus) saves the mellow, memory-filled house for the family by having Rolls buy it as a present for his niece Grizel. Then a Nazi bomb caves in one of its walls, crushing out Rolls's life. Dying, he summons the spirit of Lark for a last talk. "Those [past] . . . actions were like thorns and wounds in our minds," says Lark. "But that is all over." "I love you, Lark," cries Rolls. "I love you. How much I love...
...audience as East Lynne or The Old Curiosity Shop. But since history has made its horrors real, and the story is intelligently produced and extremely well played, it is one of the most affecting of anti-Fascist screen melodramas. Stage Veteran Felix Aylmer turns in such a mellow performance as the fragile, intrepid old man that it is easy to forgive him for visibly licking his chops over the role. Norway-born Greta Gynt, as the cabaret singer, is so crashingly carnal in her first U.S. appearance that Hollywood seems, for her, an inevitable...