Word: sweetness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sweet & Soft. This was too much for the English-language daily, the Madras Mail, which quoted an exasperated woman's comment on Chettiar: "Why does not someone find him a wife?" The Mail observed: "The Minister's puritanism . . . derives from the absence of sweet softening feminine influences in his life. Now that the question has been broached, someone among the many matchmakers in South India will perhaps succeed in providing Bachelor Avinashilingam with a wife. We sincerely hope...
...first to greet him on his arrival, and at lunch later at the Stork Club, complimented him on his "free and warm" playing on records of Schubert's Der Hirt auf dem Felsen. As for playing "the other kind" himself, Kell once made a record of Swing Low, Sweet Clarinet, but admits that "In a jam session, I'm like a rabbit at a stoat's tea party...
They sang with untrained voices, and as if they loved the music. An eleven-year-old named Sally Sheppard sang a solo in a sweet alto, ". . . in a stable, 'mid lowing of kine, Mary kept watch o'er the infant divine . . ." As she sang, cattle could be heard lowing in a red barn just behind the church. Some of the audience sat with clenched hands; a few farmers' wives dabbed at their eyes when Jane Carpenter, 16, and Leanna Livingston, 17, sang a duet: "Come, thou long-expected Jesus...
...full of malaria and so nervous I was ready to bawl if anyone looked at me. I agreed to conduct the Christmas service but I didn't want to stay. I wanted no part of society people who were looking for someone to say sweet things to them on Sunday. I know now that I misjudged them, but at that time I didn't think they meant business-that it was just a fad they'd tire...
Harry Brunner lived in a circle of fear. He feared life and, when war came, feared death. He trembled before the burdens of love and dreaded the void left by its absence. Watching himself as if he were a diseased stranger, relishing his troubles as if they were sweet delicacies, he could never act simply or spontaneously. Even after he had seen action as a naval flyer in the Pacific, he knew that his real war had to be fought within himself...