Word: mellow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...makes it jail offense to possess one quart of intoxicant. They also warned against conventioneering bootleggers, whose stock-in-trade this year is murderously "cut" and atrociously priced. The alternative suggested was to trust to personal Kansas City hospitality, for corn abounds there and it was from corn that mellow bourbon whisky used to be made...
...laboratory has never been denied place as the workshop of reality, but the tutorial system has seemed to carry a flavor of books, hearth fire and mellow phrasing that has little in common with laboratory coats, Bunsen burners and quantitative analysis. The sciences had been thought of as a multitude of parts, subdivided and resubdivided in an arrangement with so few cross relationships that the tutorial system, which aims to give the gazing student a view of the whole field, had little application here. Teaching the young idea geology, for instance, has been a matter of cumulation of courses like...
...James Ramsay MacDonald was perhaps most moving. Speaking as a Laborite who had fought Liberal Prime Minister Asquith, Mr. MacDonald said: "He was the last of what Victorians meant by great parliamentarians-men of leisure and culture, formality and dignity, learning and catholicity. . . . He was a sturdy champion whose mellow mind and rich, sonorous oratory so often lulled our watchful intelligence to sleep. We gave him our applause forgetful of the gulfs that separated us and of all the challenges that would presently be thrown by us at him when the magic of his oratory ceased to operate...
...TIME, Dec. 5). Mr. Eaton is worth $50,000,000 himself.± He is a partner in Otis & Co., Cleveland, investment bankers.± Only a few years ago, a newcomer to Cleveland, he was preaching in a small Baptist church whenever the regular pastor was absent. His voice remains mellow & resonant. Unostentatiously he gives much money to church needs, hunts with hounds, rears seven children. Although democratic, Otis & Co. employes hold him in greater awe than they do Charles A. ("Charlie") Otis, head of the firm...
...Democracy," someone has said, "is a sublime fallacy." However that may be, this sublimity, in various aspects at least, is gradually suffusing the globe, until, in the not too far distant future, one may perhaps hope to see the whole world bathed in the refulgent, mellow glow of golden unanimity...