Word: mellowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curious about Halsey. Stuart's former radio program, "The Old Counselor." Inaugurated with an address by Pennsylvania's obstreperous Congressman McFadden, it was a weekly investment talk prepared by Halsey, Stuart and read by Professor Bertram Griffith Nelson of the University of Chicago because he had a "mellow voice." Banker Stuart protested that the "Old Counselor" had never recommended specific securities, had several times warned against inflated stock prices...
...private life, homely Henry Louis Mencken was never an ogreish misanthrope. It did not take marriage with Sara Powell Haardt, two and one-half years ago, to mellow him. At 52 Editor Mencken is little changed-stocky, slovenly dressed, wearing the best cravats that 50? can buy, still fond of draught beer and Baltimore seafood. He enjoys playing the piano with the loud pedal pushed down, singing bass in his cups, playing the fiddle Saturday nights in a parlor orchestra. But he keeps more regular hours now, leaves Baltimore less often. He reads The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn once...
...English Teachers is avoiding a difficult task when it reasons: "The populace makes mistakes in English; the populace is good; therefore mistakes are good." The American version of the English tongue is fast losing all the pleasant qualities that make the pages of the Spectator and of Dickens mellow and stimulating. It has acquired a raucous tone, journalistic and barbarous. Balanced periods have disappeared even from legislative oratory, the hasty precision of modernity has killed leisurely and reflective style. These faults may be laid at the door of American classrooms, where teachers are inculcating "a feeling of world solidarity...
Companion of the gardenia boutonniere, the $100 ringside seat, the Charvet cravat, Corona Coronas is the mellow smoke of plutocracy, the incense stick of happy days. Best known of U. S. quality cigars, it used to sell for 60?. Last week Corona Coronas, sympathetically following most of its consumers into retrenchment, was offered at three...
...Justice Holmes, venerable in retirement, is still sharp and mellow of mind. He has lately been less troubled by the lumbago which was an immediate cause of his leaving the High Bench. Leaving his motor to call on his former colleagues or to borrow or return books from the Supreme Court Library, his step seems more lively, his bearing more erect, than two months ago. This year he has given no press interviews, made no public statements, but.to a banquet held by the Federal Bar Association in his honor on his 91st birthday (March 8) he wrote...