Word: mellower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...irritating myopia, youth can scarcely appreciate the ripe sagacity which directs the composition of news and editorials in the great world. But here the adolescent is appealed to in familiar terms. Only the purposeful blind can fail to detect in this piece that genteel sense of humor, that same mellow perspective which graced the manipulation of Captain Armstrong's publicity...
...reveries inspired by a sweet pipe-smoke, a pipe-smoke like unto those described in mild, mellow, expensive advertising, the Vagabond has often pondered the decay of magazine editors. Following a train of thought induced by mention of Messers George Horace Lorimer, Bernarr McFadden, and Lincoln Kirstein, he has publicly bewailed the loss of effusions such as those of the youthful Lincoln Steffens. What an opening there is for editors who can today, blud-goon graft and corruption with sweetness and light, as others did of yore, all with the accompaniment of sounding trumpets and falling walls. There...
...better than a little thing that has mellow real mellow. It is better than lakes whole lakes, it is better than seeing...
...Pope first appears blessing a throng at the Vatican upon his election in 1922. In later shots he seems more mellow, friendly, self-assured. He receives Boy Scouts in his favorite spot in the Vatican Gardens, the garish reproduction of the Grotto of Lourdes. The King & Queen of Italy visit him; black missionaries kiss his finger. The Pope speaks once, in his soft, old-man's voice, at the opening of his radio station...
...exactly Nazis, the blatant bravos of Estonia call themselves Front Soldiers, wear rakish "front caps." Last week in mellow Dorpat, "the Estonian Athens" (it has a university), scurrilous Front Soldiers had fun with pompous President Jann Tonisson of Estonia...