Word: mellower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...groups. A Crumb, finding himself alone in anything would very possibly go mad. They are gross, suffocating vulgarians. Among them are Orrin, the Gideonite salesman, bristling with esprit de corps; Tweet, his wife, "a fair thick being"; Mama Crumb, passive housewife ; Pearl, "a lovely, listless sister, a too mellow fruit"; Richmiel, sleek and perfumed, "whose body had seemed nine-tenths of her being" Grandfather Crumb, old, defeated, hopeless, ignored by the other Crumbs, but rising above them. Leda's defenses were being beaten down by the sheer gross weight of the Crumbs when Barnaby came. He was the divorced...
...sale at auction in Prague, and was discovered by Dr. Gustav Weil, collector, through an obscure Persian inscription and a signature almost buried in grime. The "light that never was on land or sea" was painted by Rembrandt, if by any one. His pictures glow with a peculiar mellow intensity that can hardly have existed in the actual scene before him. While the light from Rembrandt's brush falls on them, they are people in a dream, creatures of imagination as much as Hamlet, Pickwick, Lear. If the light were turned out there would remain only burgomasters, doctors...
Most of the hilarity centers about a quart bottle of champagne, on which one of the young blades (Mr. Young and one of the ex-fiancées (Estelle Winwood) get unwarrantably but agreeably mellow. Other indignities offered the recent amendment are highballs in the first act, cocktails before the champagne, and a pitcher of some obscure intoxicant in a restaurant scene...
Acting upon a suggestion offered by Professor Hurlbut to men in English 29 I dropped into Appleton Chapel the other morning. I had almost forgotten that this gray, rigidly silent building had an interior. It has. And the atmosphere there is rather beautiful; dreamily quiet and mellow. Seasoned browns and dusty crimsons meet the eye except high in the chancel where a circular, stained glass window reveals sea greens and yellows and scarlets. The seasoned browns and dusty crimsons are, perhaps, symbolic of the past; the greens and yellows and scarlets, of the future. Here they meet in mutual...
...unblossoming paths of scholastic virtue. There has been need of a light for his feet--a cuiding beacon of hope towards which he might struggle across the orange pops the blocked his way. And at last it has come dight in sunset livery of scarlet and gold, shedding its mellow rays alike upon the barren walks of the Yard and the Dingy gutters of Plympton street. And the undergraduate rejoices and is content...