Word: mellows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night was there with only one idea -- to see Ethel Barrymore. It has been several seasons since Miss Barrymore has appeared in Boston and the larger part of the audience came to see whether she still retained that unique fascination which has made her famous. Her voice is as mellow as ever and she still dominates the stage with her personality and mannerisms. Some of us wish that she would pose a little less and be a little less Miss Barrymore and more of Sir James Barrie's "Kate", but then one goes to see her, not the play...
...ineffective sort of loyalty. Here we allow a man to work out his own salvation: let every man find for himself some social group, some intellectual niche where he fits in, some ideal that Yuspires him. Yet, wherever he is finally placed he cannot help being impregnated with the mellow reality that New England represents; nor can he help seeing in the serenity of Harvard a good deal more than mere smugness...
...hard for listeners familiar with the work of amateur male choruses to believe that these singers were not any of them professionals. Their attacks were crisp and accurate, their phrasing correct, their tone beautifully rich and mellow, and their diction readily intelligible without reference to the words printed in the program...