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...years between divide the Senior from the Freshman like a grand canyon, sometimes. Until a day or two ago we didn't realize how ripe and mellow, free from care and worry, three years and odd months at Harvard can make a fellow. With our thesis half completed and a ticket on the Monarch of Bermuda in the drawer, life was nothing but a brave new world of dreams. Yet suddenly a tale of horror struck a note of tragedy into our symphony of pleasure, stark tragedy crashed mightily about our cars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 2/20/1937 | See Source »

...newshawks or Secretary Morgenthau had expected to find the old man in a mellow mood on laying down his duties, they received a rude surprise. Taciturn Chief Moran's mood was black and rueful. A reporter asked if his recent absence from duty was due to sickness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Service Shift | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

...equal "Top Hat," yet still must be considered top-notch entertainment. Without a doubt Eleanor Powell's tap dancing features the picture: in addition, she does so well in the role of the little town girl who makes good that she easily outclasses Ginger Rogers. However, James Stewart, the mellow almost inaudible tenor, is no Astaire, and if it weren't for his ingratiating boyish shyness, he would detract from the film. The clever Reginald Gardinev leads a neat touch with a fantastic impersonation of Stokowski and his baton, an act which he repeats in "The Show Is On". Supplementing...

Author: By E. G., | Title: THE CRIMSON MOVIEGOER | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

...which Squire Baldwin did this in the House of Commons was intensely moving, mellow and dramatic without melodrama, in fact it was magnificent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Baldwin the Magnificent | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

...announced that his private negotiations had been broken off. Caulaincourt was getting sick with fear. Afraid to let the miserable Ragusa out of his sight, Caulaincourt dragged him to Alexander. Until five in the morning Napoleon's emissaries argued with that odd Tsar, who was in his most mellow mood. He encouraged them; Napoleon's cause still had a chance. But all precautions were futile, for at eleven-thirty in the morning, when Caulaincourt was having breakfast with Marshal Ney, Ragusa suddenly burst in. stupefied them by jabbering incoherently that he was disgraced. All night long his troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Troublemaker's Troubles | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

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