Word: mellows
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...legitimate stage, enacts for the fourth time in the U. S. (the first, 1898) the fortunes of those shockingly Bohemian actors and actresses who strutted in famed Sadler's "Wells" during the reign of good Queen Victoria. To the zip-gobbling audiences of this day, the play offers mellow humor and pathos-qualities whose commercial values are doubtful. To the student of the theatre, to the lover of stage personalities, it is irresistable. Dramatist Pinero in Trelawny has created a young playwright-one whose theories and struggles against the theatrical traditions of the time were those of Sir Arthur...
...intricate, and the CRIMSON interviewer was glad at last to see the generous form of John Hazard in the doorway of his dressing room. Following Mr. Hazard inside the reporter was seated and properly entertained with the amenities which are the fashion these days. The conversation took on a mellow tone...
...mother told me that I was not cut out for a paper doll, that I had larger things to do than wash other peoples poodles. So at the ripe and mellow age of forty-nine I strapped my felt hat to my black overcoat and set out for Cambridge. Arriving there about half past nine what was my surprise when I saw that someone had arrived there before me--it was quite a thrill to see the long line of Yard Cops on their conservations with their arms crossed across their abdomens and that look which Abraham Lincoln has described...
...Four thousand pounds," said a quiet, mellow voice, the voice of His Highness Aga Sultan Sir Mahomed Shah, the Aga Khan III. At once the buzz of Christie's quieted. The Aga Khan had recently offered ?100,000 ($486,000) for Solario, famed racehorse (TIME, June 21). He could bid up to almost any sum for the diamond "Golden Dawn" if he really wanted it. Perhaps a record in diamond bidding loomed...
Distinguished gentlemen, dan gling golden keys from their watch-chains, made pilgrimage into his toric Virginia, to listen at Williamsburg to the mellow accents of Dr. Henry van Dyke, Princeton poet-patriarch; to hear a sweet-voweled memorial poem by Dr. John Erskine of Columbia (author, The Private Life of Helen of Troy and Galahad) ; to attend the prophetic utterance of Dr. Charles Franklin Thwing, president emeritus of Western Reserve University and president of Phi Beta Kappa, who dedicated before the gathering that scholarly brotherhood's $100,000 memorial auditorium. Dr. Oscar M. Voorhees, secretary...