Word: mellowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Life," said Charles Chaplin, on his 58th birthday, "begins at 50. ... The middle years are the mellow ones [without] agonies and tensions." Next day, a Manhattan court recorded a $6,450,000 damage suit against him. After seven years of brooding about the matter, Author Konrad Bercovici claimed that Charlie had "pirated" a Bercovici yarn as the basis of The Great Dictator...
...Sodality is older than most of the more orthodox structures of the University, Memorial Hall included. Founded in 1808 by students anxious to improve their instrumental skills, the Sodality (Latin for fellowship) was at first more a social congregation than a note-following gathering. Yet their early addiction to mellow spirits rather than spirited melodies in no way obviates their claim to being "the oldest musical organization in America"-as well as Boston...
...still can't read music well. He played his first date in New Orleans' red-light district when he was 10. He says "If I couldn't find the notes in the proper place, I made 'em myself. If you want a soft mellow tone, you have to take it easy and pet it a little. But you take an awful chance, you may not get anything." He still uses his own unorthodox fingering. "I seem to have a gift," he says. "If I hear a bar or a couple of notes of a melody...
...contemplating the gaping hole in the argyle sock, where he was about to commit his bare foot, when his reveries were interrupted by a stealthy knock at the door. "It's open," he purred, in the renowned mellow 100 proof tone, as a mufflered figure sidled in, peering in both directions over the upturned label of a secondhand Brooks Brothers overcoat...
...dear Reader, happen to have a glass in hand, filled to the brim with mellow Hungarian wine, remember the old Hungarian peasant saying: Adjon Isten bort, buzát, békességet - God give us wine, wheat and peace." So mused the magazine New Hungary recently in a wistful article on the possibility of exporting more wine...