Word: mellowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which Squire Baldwin did this in the House of Commons was intensely moving, mellow and dramatic without melodrama, in fact it was magnificent...
...announced that his private negotiations had been broken off. Caulaincourt was getting sick with fear. Afraid to let the miserable Ragusa out of his sight, Caulaincourt dragged him to Alexander. Until five in the morning Napoleon's emissaries argued with that odd Tsar, who was in his most mellow mood. He encouraged them; Napoleon's cause still had a chance. But all precautions were futile, for at eleven-thirty in the morning, when Caulaincourt was having breakfast with Marshal Ney, Ragusa suddenly burst in. stupefied them by jabbering incoherently that he was disgraced. All night long his troops...
...Keen, mellow and eminent among Federal jurists is 70-year-old Julian William Mack, who sits on the U. S. Circuit Court in New York. A realistic Zionist, Judge Mack overcame his detestation of titular honors last summer to accept honorary presidency of the First World Jewish Congress in Geneva. Devoted to the sanity of the law, he has shown a liberalism no less profound, if less spectacular than that of his old friend, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis. His decision in the famed anti-trust case against the Sugar Institute in 1934 stands as a weighty legal precedent...
...platitude of the game's being over only when the final whistle blows will stand longer than any mellow undergraduate who holds his arms in a circle over his head for the visitors' score. The tie game with Princeton, and the record against the Navy discount any need for laws of averages or "under-dog psychology." "Truly," to quote a sports writer, "the astute Harlow has brought this team along a cross-country mile since it took those early shellackings...
...Audubon took refuge in a trapper's cabin which became so flooded that he had to hold his arms over his head to protect his portfolio. In the midst of his discomfort the storm ended, and he suddenly heard a wood thrush, "a song of a few clear, mellow, flute-like notes falling in gentle cadences." As he listened he thought that no song could be "so gentle in its last, almost inaudible phrases." He gave up painting portraits of human beings. "After this,'' said he, "I shall follow only the birds of America...