Word: mellower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is in Alexandria, as in Cambridge, a Harvard Street. For years this suburban street with all its New England connotations existed as a source of minor irritation to the mellow inhabitants of the Old South. Now Harry Burke, chairman of the Alexandria Park and Planning Commission, proposes to change the name to Monree Street, as he feels that "The teachings of Harvard University always have been alien to Virginia traditions," and he desires to honor the name of a famous Virginian. But Harvard is quickly defended by a surviving Barbara Frietchle, who in a letter of strong opposition...
...sinister too. But through a rain of horsey talk it seems that purity of race is not everything. The son fends off a designing chorus girl. The daughter finds here true love. The horse winds the Futurity at Belmont Park (offstage), saves the family fortunes. And Florence Reed, permitted mellow, quizzical and domineering has a high time. A neighborly matron remarks in suprise at her daughter's knowledge of the turf: "We haven't had a horse in the place since her father died...
...testimony given by four hundred residents of Morgan County, to whose court the change of venue will bring the Scottsboro case late this month. The testimony, secured by the simple expedient of camouflaging investigators as brush salesmen, shows forth the Jim Crows with every fang aglitter. For example, one mellow judgment runs: "If them lawyers comes here, it will be a one way trip." Many admitted that they had already made up their minds, but "Would conceal it to get on the jury and send those coons to the electric chair," more were in favor of the approach direct, without...
From the newsprints of Chicago comes a mellow little saga regarding the American Legion Convention held there last week. In the lobby of the Palmer House, one of the nation's most placid and unruffled hostelries, a number of legionnaires were disporting drunkenly in their underclothing when some veteran wag possessed himself of a knife and cut loose. Even Chicago the unshockable found this rather heavy footed, and were it not that the Legion constituted a sacrosanct mine of large emotions and useful votes, the reformers would certainly have reached for their hatchets and carved its scalp...
...taverns," and gladly contribute to the revenue Income. If the Democrats put through such an imbecile piece of legislation, they will make themselves the laughing-stock of the very young men whom they hope will cast a vote for their party when they reach the theoretically mature and mellow age of twenty...