Word: mellowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 (New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Bruno Walter conducting; Columbia; 6 sides). Less heady than Toscanini's for Victor, Walter's 8th is as mellow as well-aged Viennese slivovitz...
There was no sound from most of Christopher Wren's churches in the City of London. But there were the old guttural notes from St. Paul's Cathedral, and the same mellow chimes from Westminster Abbey. At Coventry the cathedral bells, all that were saved in a night of concentrated blitzing, sang out at special length, to observe the victory and to commemorate the second anniversary of the raid which destroyed the cathedral and the town...
...Bessic Smith? She was a big colored woman, with a voice like a mellow foghorn, a range of two notes, and a heart as big as humanity. Bessie is, indeed, the epitome of all that is good in jazz. To the uninitiated, she couldn't possibly stack up alongside Dinah. Certainly Dinah is far easier to listen to. But when you take the time to listen to Bessic, you soon find out Dinah's is the one who can't do the stacking...
Otherwise Franklin Roosevelt was in a fine, mellow mood. He had glowing praise now for the speed with which Congress had passed his anti-inflation bill. He had kudos for the Selective Service system and his military advisers. And he gallantly assured American women that the old saws about female curiosity were a canard: "The first people to look up from their work were the men-and not the women. It was chiefly the men who were arguing whether that fellow in the straw hat was really the President...
Minnesota Republicans firmly beat down the bustling attempt by tall, mellow Senator Henrik Shipstead, who moved into their house two years ago from the old Farmer-Labor Party, to set himself up as head man in place of able young Governor Harold E. Stassen. Last week's primary was a whopping defeat for Senator Shipstead's men: renominated by big margins were both Governor Stassen and his close friend, Joseph Hurst Ball, the ex-newspaperman whom Stassen appointed to the Senate in 1940. With the Farmer-Labor Party on the skids and the Democrats scarcely heard from, Stassen...