Word: mellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris had lost its Ile Saint-Louis and Place des Vosges, or Vienna its Hofburg and its Opera House on the Ringstrasse. For the mellow buildings near the Ponte Vecchio, on either side of the Arno, formed one of the most cherished views in the world. Most of that crowded, encrusted skyline is now gone. "Palace after palace, dating from the 14th to the 16th Century, are heaps of rubble. In the wreckage lie such things as the ancient manuscripts, books and art objects of the Societa Colombaria. . . ."* Total or heavy destruction included...
More than 155 couples swayed to the mellow music of Ruby Newman and his orchestra Saturday night at the Lowell House summer informal dance. Stags were scarce at this initial major all-College dance of the summer semester...
...Pattern. The Army, as it clawed through German defenses before Florence, one of Italy's greatest cities, did its part to expend the last German munitions and men south of the Po. The battle for Florence was expected to follow the pattern of Rome. Like the capital, the mellow, sun-washed city of art had been declared open by the Germans a month ago. Now, a few miles outside it, the Germans were fighting with fierce, expert craft. At week's end the German resistance stiffened. But the Germans' battle was a losing one. Within a matter...
Curtis spoke for many another Negro serviceman, who will be a powerful force in Negro society after the war. But it seemed unlikely that mellow old (67) Ben Davis, a regular of 43 years of service and the only Negro ever to wear a U.S. general officer's star, would live to see the time that he and many another good American hoped...
...each visitor the Pope spoke a mellow word or two. To each he presented a lithographed photograph of himself, a black-and-silver rosary in a small olive-green packet bearing the Papal seal...