Word: mellowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sacrifice an sterling nobility may nor make good tale telling but it does make a good movie. The performances of Miss Oberon. Mr. March and Mr. Marshall are uniformly excellent and the film is admirably photographed and embellished by an appropriate and pleasing musical accompaniment. Good for a mellow mead...
...Professor of English Literature at Williams, then at Princeton, then at Harvard, he gained a reputation as one of the best-loved members of the coterie of Great Names in American Literary life. In his biography, published now in Bliss Perry's seventy fifth year, he re-creates the mellow charm of those years of his life...
Some Chicagoans still think that President Hutchins' manner has hurt the University, that the town might have done more for the gown during Depression if he had been a bit more mellow. Friends and philosophers, however, are glad that Bob Hutchins has escaped the fate which Critic Carl Van Doren ascribes to Author Christopher Morley: "He got mellow before he got ripe...
...fiery Wartime pacifism of James Ramsay MacDonald has long since mellowed into compromise. Compromise has made him Prime Minister of England, the King's good friend and pet lion of the Marchioness of Londonderry. To the hard-headed Conservatives of the National Government, led in fact by Stanley Baldwin, mellow Scot MacDonald is an ideal figurehead, never more so than now as it faces an oncoming national election. MacDonald, however, is far from well. Over & over the Conservatives have prepared the voters for MacDonald's final fade-out by slipping out rumors that he was about to resign...
...mellow as Bethlehem's aging chairman, the other convening steelmen were filled with fear and fight. President William A. Irvin of the U.S. Steel, which controls 40% of total U.S. capacity, grumbled about foreign competition in home markets. President Tom Mercer Girdler of Republic flayed the Wagner Labor Disputes Bill as "the outstanding legislative monkey-wrench which threatens to jam the wheels of recovery. . . . The one & only purpose behind it is to clamp the yoke of the closed shop upon free American citizens...