Word: mellower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...triangle of Dunster or the polygon of Eliot. And the building itself with its Independence Hall tower and its facades borrowed from Massachusetts, Bollis, and Holworthy has achieved a surprising beauty and proportion. A great deal was gained by leaving the original trees in the courtyards, creating a quiet, mellow atmosphere. More effort has probably been spent on the landscape architecture than in any other House, at least it has been more successful. Like the rest of the world, though, at least architecturally speaking, the House is not as pure as the Master would have it. For of the fifty...
...90th birthday: "Death plucks my ear and says 'Live-I am coming!' " Tonight's newspapers give an all too abbreviated report of his remarks upon his 91st birthday. I trust TIME will not cut his remarks severely, for they are usually so beautiful and mellow...
...rich Mrs. Jacob R. Custer, young Garner has had six years' study abroad. Last week, singing for the benefit of unemployed Negroes, he proved that he had made much of his opportunities. He has acquired an Oxford accent, learned better how to manage a voice that is strong, smooth, mellow...
...Mellow firelight flickered about the office of the Secretary of the Treasury one morning last week, dappling its black leather arm chairs, glinting on the glass doors of its bookcases and softening the chill rain that fell outside. Behind his broad mahogany desk sat Andrew William Mellon, his thin patrician face a mask to his own reflections. Around the big room were scattered Treasury newshawks attending what would probably be their last press conference with this shy little man puffing meditatively on a black cigar no bigger than a cigaret. His career as Secretary of the Treasury was over; President...
...Papavert is the name of a mellow old bookbinder who suddenly finds himself in jail. Released by Communists, he becomes for them a symbol of the oppressed workingman. But Mr. Papavert does not like to be a symbol, at one point tries to commit suicide. The whole affair woefully tries for satirical effect, elements of which must have been lost long ago with constant revision. The play was recalled after two performances last month. At that time it was called Papavert. Its present title resulted from a general impression that papaversion was a mental disease...