Word: mellower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...goodbys seemed to be over last week with a weepy luncheon at which Geraldine Farrar acted as toastmistress. Gatti was mellow. He bestowed an impulsive, bearded kiss on Conductor Arturo Toscanini, his oldtime colleague and again his friend. Then Rosa Ponselle got up one last party, at sailing time. When Gatti hulked up on deck he found that she had invited hundreds of friends to surprise him. Every opera singer still in town said another tearful goodby, drank champagne toasts. Gatti seemed tired and bewildered. But he replied with "Viva America, Viva Italia, Viva Roosevelt, Viva Mussolini...
Maps. Dr. Caspar J. Kraemer Jr., a mellow, twinkly professor of Latin and Greek at New York University, was summoned by the investigating committee to explain how the Work Relief Division's cartographic project, which he heads, was employing 200 men at a cost of $290,000 per year. About 70% of his maps, models and charts, testified Professor Kraemer, were modern relief maps, including some of New York City & vicinity which would be useful in regional planning. The Committee's counsel called a list of the other 30%. They included the Geographic Distribution of Ancient Greek Dialects...
...Rested by his recent seaside holiday, mellow old George V last week felt fit as a Stradivarius for his exhausting Silver Jubilee which commences May 6. Shushing the royal physicians, who favored further rest, the King-Emperor insisted on doing two major chores...
...with 13 crippled children chosen by lot. For the fifth year Mrs. Eliza Manry, 97, of Lamar County, Ga., supplied a 40-lb. gobbler which required three men to bring it in from the kitchen. Afterwards a tenor rendered "Home on the Range" and on the second chorus the mellow Rooseveltian baritone was heard joining in with the rest of the happy group. Then Trustee Roosevelt made a little speech...
...that State, tried to write and finally moved away because his efforts to make lignite coal burn wearied him. He went to California, reported for San Francisco newspapers, was an English instructor at Stanford. At 46, he still has the slightly unkempt appearance, the tolerant smile, the low, mellow voice of an obscure but well-liked college professor...