Word: mellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mellow & Gracious. Queen Mary came to embody that enduring sense of the past that lives in the present, which is the Englishman's special love. As the court went into a 30-day mourning period (which will end before the coronation), one who strongly shares this sense of past & present spoke her requiem...
...Queen Mary will long live mellow and gracious in all our memories . . . We pray that she may now rest in peace...
...gingerly last week when the first leg of a month's flying tour* of Europe brought him to London, the heart of the conspiracy. British newsmen went eagerly to bait him in his suite at Claridge's. Only one got in, was startled to find him unexpectedly mellow, even complimentary. "I think you [British] are coming on a bit," said the colonel. After a thoughtful pause, he added: "There's one thing which always strikes me when I come to England-that's the good manners of everyone...
...Mellow had a bad night in the K. of C. pole vault, and missed third place honors there. A bad spill in the third leg of the mile relay stymied a fine Crimson entry in the same meet...
Part of the mellow effect came from the devoted performance by London's Griller Quartet, for which Bloch wrote the piece. It had its angry trills and thudding undertones, yet over the harshness always rode an affirmative melody. "It is quite natural that I do not react and feel and write as I did at 20, 30, 40, or 50-when I was young," says Bloch...