Word: mellow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...College (Brunswick), in celebration of the centenary of the graduations of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Institute of Modern Literature last week burgeoned forth, with a specialist on every branch and juicy speech-fruit for all the world to cull from the press. In Bowdoin's mellow Memorial Hall, the first to speak was Poet Robert Frost. He read Longfellow's Flight Into Egypt, dwelt a while on his own favorite theme of "vocal imagination" -"Longfellow, you see," said Poet Frost, "used no figures of speech. Our poets today, a lot of them, are metaphor-crackers...
During times of public danger, or when delicate matters are to be put through with some finesse, this mellow inconclusiveness may perhaps be justified, but Mr. Coolidge has majorities supporting him in both houses of Congress, and so does not need to rely on anonymity. The danger of these ambushed soundings of public opinion comes in making the President subject to every caprice of popular enthusiasm. The prepared statements issued by Presidents prior to Harding told the public just what the President intended to do without leaving him a loophole of escape when he advocated unpopular policies...
WILD MARRIAGE-B. H. Lehrm Harper ($2.00). Mr. Lehman, a ture Harvard graduate, sketches easily. He exhibits a venerable insitution as background for a gently satirical study in motives. Professors, if musty, are mellow. Undergraduates, if callow, are traditionally precocious. College evils; however undesireable are not tragic. anbridge conventions if stifling, are sincere. The story itself, slightly artificial but cleverly told, is a product of older Harvard : Elam Dunster, great-great-grandsired by a Harvard president returns to his professor-father from a sophisticated childhood in Europe with his runaway mother and her lover. He discovers a quixotic passion...
...Mellow Years...
...must arrive in Venice in the right mood, and at the right time of day, if you would fully appreciate her beauty," he explained. "In the sunlight she gives herself away light a worn, haggard old woman. The time to arrive in Venice is when the moon diffuses her mellow light over the city. To enjoy Venice best, one should take a gondola and be propelled slowly through the narrow canals. Don't take one of those motor driven gondolas, reported to be coming into use. If they are not done away with, they will totally destroy the charm...