Word: mellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time. Tonight at 7 o'clock is the big one with flashguys and a 22 gun salute. Comb your bair, whip out your shiny new life, and look at the birdie. Afterwards, a cop for all plus a six-ring cirens with guaranteed mellow inselect background, Coine...
Vandenberg. The Senator's mellow voice carried the deep significance of his first policy pronouncement since he became the majority party's spokesman on international affairs. He was foreshadowing his new role in the shaping of policy; in his lines could be read significant shifts of emphasis on Some phases of existing policy, clarifications on other debated points. The Senator's speech made news-about U.N., trade policy, China, Latin America, The Bomb...
...drunks, prostitutes, petty thieves and disturbers of the public peace. Magistrates and constables are often surprised to find vicious repeaters showing up as misguided, well-meaning little folk, but they read his column devotedly. He frequently gives judges, lawyers, police and wrongdoers the same indiscriminate, kindly treatment in mellow pieces that read like lesser Dickens with a shot of O. Henry. (Jones is tired of being compared to Dickens, insists that he has read only the Pickwick Papers, and that...
Kirkland House's "The Provoked Wife" featured mellow and impromptu acting, voluptuous females in Sam Mantel and Dick Mannick in revealing Restoration garb, and "master of the company" Hammond portraying an especially suited Justice of the Peace role, in the hilarity directed by Al Olsen...
Suppose you take a guy with a mellow manner and a voice of blue velvet, name of Bing Crosby, add several measures of topflight tapping by Fred Astaire, sprinkle happily with a few cups of amusement by Billy De Wolfe and Olga San Juan, stir in 32 Irving Berlin tunes of ageless vintage, and include (more or less as a seasoning afterthought) a pretty feline-eyed gal whom the boys call Joan Caulfield. The final product--"Blue Skies"--should be, and is, by cinema standards, a fine bit of musical entertainment. Its conventionally silly plot has Caulfield vacillating between Crosby...