Word: mellower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eight-hour work day. As NBC's musical counsel honoris causa, he has worked at a steady job for 13 years: NBC's Music Appreciation Hour. Every Friday some 7,000,000 youngsters, most of them in public-school classes, await with pencils and notebooks the mellow baritone of nice old Dr. Damrosch: "Good afternoon, my dear children...
After the picnic the Locarno chill thawed into the mellow "Spirit of Locarno." A peace pact was initialed, with Benito Mussolini rushing up to sign at the last moment. Amid worldwide optimistic hopes for a New Era, too little attention was paid to what such then uncensored German papers as the famed Berliner Tage-blatt had to say: "Germany, which two years ago was isolated . . . has . . . become a factor of might once more...
...Faculty and students; the instructor of whom John Reed could say "He stimulated generations of men to find color and strength and beauty in books and in the world, and to express it again"; the very human bit of Harvard's past who, belonging to the favored few that mellow but never age, at 81 still fascinates student audiences...
...would be appointed in the old Justice's place? Best guess of Washington quidnuncs last week: South Carolina's fox-shrewd Senator James Francis Byrnes, a politician's politician as other men are poet's poets or engineer's engineers-mellow, human, but not profound. Among still good bets was Attorney General Robert Houghwout (pronounced How'-att) Jackson. Two days before Mr. Justice McReynolds resigned, Mr. Jackson published a timely book, The Struggle for Judicial Supremacy (Knopf...
...silent as in phthisis, psychic, and ptarmigan"), the fastidious young man who calls everybody "Comrade," and almost alone among Wodehouse fauna has enough wits to live by. There is the epic of Jeeves, the infallible, verse-quoting valet ("We are in the autumn, sir, season of mists and mellow fruitfulness"). In the workaday world Jeeves might seem like an average enough gentleman's gentleman but stacked up beside Bertie Wooster, to whose harebrained Don Quixote he plays a discreet Sancho Panza, Jeeves looks like an intellectual giant. There is also Mr. Mulliner, of the bar parlor at the Angler...