Word: mellower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Warm breezes drifted in from the nearby ocean. Hot air arose in the press. A mellow Florida moon lurked behind drifting clouds. Forty thousand men and women in a bowl of raw yellow pine-the Greeks knew how to do these things much better-looked not at the elusive moon but at a garish cone of artificial light in the bowl's bottom...
...board along the Bowery. "Mr. Villard needs bitterness, not expensive fun. He has had the latter all of his life. Heywood Broun needs a little iron, too. This country just now badly needs a few bitter men like William Lloyd Garrison. It stinks with a well-fed, mellow complacency, the spirit that elected Herbert Hoover...
...carry Frith-Walter to the Riviera. He was healthy, he was wealthy, he was witty and wise; all was well with his world. "The earth lies all before me"-he had liked that line of Wordsworth, so he boarded the train with The Prelude in his pocket, and anticipated mellow pleasure in the reading...
...Yang to a game of Mah Jong in Mukden, remote Manchurian Capital. Also sitting in was General Chang Yin-huai, another faithful officer of old times. Softly the tiles rattled, and courteously the game began. Not until midnight neared did Young Chang excuse himself momentarily, leaving the Generals in mellow mood over wine and sweetmeats...
Item, lustre: for which there is neither test nor definition. It is the mellow glow emanating from an unblemished "skin," soft, warm, alive. If pearls are held between the eye and the light, some will show a translucent encircling band about one-fifth the width of their diameter. Such have the finer lustre...