Word: mellower
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...mellow voice of the Very Reverend Albert Victor Baillie, Dean of Windsor, Chaplain of the Order, led the knights through their service, brightened by the silvery piping of St. George's choir. When it was over the worshippers moved to St. George's Hall in the Castle. There they banqueted beneath the banners of the 26 original knights and the coats-of-arms of every knight in the Order since 1350. They noticed that two of the shields were blank-those of the Duke of Monmouth who rebelled against James II and the pro-Irish Duke of Ormonde...
...graft a Siberian crab apple to an oak. . . . They are exotic." Most of the audience had grown some fruit, and they knew Squire Baldwin has also pruned off the British oak its exotic topmost leaf Edward VIII. They raised lusty cheers for the Prime Minister and returned the mellow words with which he left them: "God bless...
Forty European and U. S. travelers on a world cruise stepped off the S. S. Reliance at Tientsin last week, entrained for Peiping to visit its famed Temple of Heaven. As they drove up to its mellow walls they saw thousands of Chinese crowded before the Temple gabbling excitedly. Soon a knot of Chinese soldiers appeared, piled up packages of drugs worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, set them blazing while the Chinese crowd laughed and cheered and hawkers did roaring business with peanuts and watermelon seeds...
...ears, while the lecturer spends freely of his hard-earned store. Now that the sanctity of our three hundred years lies officially upon us, now that the day of the greats is fast drawing to a close, this relationship may truly be said to have ripened into a mellow reality...
...Netherlands arrived in Vienna last week and was entering the dining room of her hotel when she was unexpectedly stopped and embraced with friendly warmth by an Englishman, the Duke of Windsor. Later the Crown Princess was escorted by her Prince Consort to some of Vienna's mellow evening taverns, danced and sipped sour wine in one until 5 a. m. Meanwhile the Duke of Windsor said good-by to his sister, Princess Mary, the Princess Royal (TIME, Feb. 15), who returned to the United Kingdom. A typically Viennese press sensation burst when one of Windsor's telegrams...