Word: mellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public" Christmas tree, a ten-foot Norwegian spruce glistening with artificial snow and icicles, was set up in the East Room before the broad French windows. On wintery Washington evenings the old house looked like something on a Christmas card-its white expanse gleaming in the shadows, the mellow, warm light from its windows shining through the ancient, weatherbeaten oaks and maples. Poinsettias replaced the ferns in the hallways; wreaths of spruce and pine cones appeared in the windows; a spray of mistletoe hung from the big brass light in the lobby, over the Presidential seal embedded in the stone...
...Sultan up to last month, when she was killed by a German bomb while shopping for a fur coat in Canterbury. Said the Sultan of Johore: "I am heartbroken." Exactly six days later his old eyes kindled again as he bought a Red Cross flag from Miss Marcella Mendl, mellow Rumanian blonde who speaks five languages, is distantly related to cafe society's famed Sir Charles Mendl, has lately been driving an A. R. P. ambulance in London...
Dinosaurs and Sound Tracks. Conductor Stokowski went to work in Philadelphia's mellow and acoustically perfect old Academy of Music, recording his symphonic accompaniments on sound tracks. This time he worked, not with the Hollywood pickup band that had recorded...
...those days small-town life was a popular literary theme, with two schools of approach. One stemmed from mellow Hoosier Poet James Whitcomb Riley, was ripest in the folksy novels of Hoosier Booth Tarkington. The other stemmed from the Spoon River Anthology by an Illinois lawyer and politician, Edgar Lee Masters. The ripest work of this school is Sherwood Anderson's. His meandering, mystical tales present the U. S. small town as a dimpling surface above dark fathoms of frustrated desires. He wrote of a typical female in Winesburg, Ohio: "At night she dreamed that he had bitten into...
...Andrew Ague cheek who hardly exploited "the robust comedy elements of the play" I take it that Miss Hughes feels badly that the lines did not crackle like those, say, out of "Panama Hattie." I don't think Shakespeare meant them to. Toby's humor is more mellow than witty. It belongs, just as he does, to old and merry England...