Word: mellower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Irvin, mellow, good-natured, immune to the deliberate insanity of the regular staff, drew the first New Yorker cover ("Mr. Eustace Tilley" in a high hat, high stock, with a monocle up to a butterfly), passes on every drawing the magazine uses, scanning some 1,000 pictures every Tuesday afternoon. Scale of prices to artists: $10 for a one-column spot without caption, $200 and up for a full page or cover...
When His Majesty relaxed in mellow mood, with Dictator Kemal half seas over, opportunities to negotiate were nimbly seized by the Talleyrand of Turkey, her perpetual Foreign Minister, Dr. Tewfik Rushdi Bey, who began his career as an obstetrician. Knowing that there is no Persian with whom one can effectively negotiate except the King of Kings, ingratiating Dr. Rushdi sounded His Majesty on the great project of a Middle Eastern Alliance, a bloc to be constructed in spite of Britain and France by Moslems of Turkey, Persia, Irak, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Transjordania and Egypt. Such at least is Dr. Rushdi...
...benefits which the students conferred upon themselves was a nifty street-lighting system in the vicinity of Fraternity Row to the detriment of the more refined portion of Amherst which was compelled to find its way home by the light of uncertain kerosene while the college man enjoyed the mellow light of gas. Perhaps the climax of their attempts at home rule came, however, when a determined bloo passed a bill calling for an appropriation sufficient to defray building a covered walk between Amherst and Smith. No evidence of this proposed boon to mankind a visible today, but the measure...
...piano itself does produce extraordinarily clear and mellow tones except in the last two octaves of the upper and lower registers, which are too shallow and metallic and are without sufficient richness or body of sonority, respectively. The piano, however, has great possibilities, for a revision of the conventional grand has become more obviously necessary in the past few years. The number of dry and inflexible pieces of mechanism that have been manufactured by commercialists has increased insufferably. It is a curious phenomenon that the piano has remained the same for fifty years except for occasional experiments with double keyboards...
Somehow, Geneva has been particularly impotent during the recent succession of European crises. One might expect the usual beau geste, the customary mellow phrase from that superannuated society of diplomats, but even that has been lacking. The reason may be found in the constitution of the organization itself. At its inception, the right to declare war was expressly reserved for each of its members gathered, ostensibly, to outlaw it. Rampant, nationalisms cannot enter a suicide pact cheerfully unless their pistols are loaded with blank cartridges...