Word: mellower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mother, memory, Cellophane, bellboy, melancholy, belladonna, flamingo, wilderness, tambourine, lavender. Last week Logophile Colby reported the results of a new readers' poll. Mother had slipped a bit, but was still listed among the top ten. There were eight new favorites. The 1950 hit parade: melody, lullaby, mimosa, memory, mellow, mother, moonbeam, murmuring, beautiful, lanolin...
...people: a motherless twelve-year-old girl, a middle-aged Negro servant and a small boy. Gawky, bewildered, self-dramatizing Frankie Addams, full of emotions a size too large for childhood, a size too small for adolescence, yearns to be somebody, to count with people, to belong. Life-tempered, mellow Berenice Sadie Brown, the Addams' cook, who has loved one man and married four, is as resigned as Frankie is agitated; little John Henry, though forever asking questions, has asked none yet of life...
...John Harvey & Sons, makers of Bristol Milk and a better sherry called Bristol Cream, never got around to registering the trademark of their mellow product. Recently, intending to enter the U.S. market on a larger scale, Harvey's finally applied to the British Food Ministry for a registration certificate protecting the Bristol Milk label...