Word: mellowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another part of the state Mead's opponent, Tom Dewey, hustled on through his last days before election, breezing through Elmira, Fort Niagara, Binghamton, Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo. He was mellow, he was casual, he even had a touch of bonhomie; he was scathing of his opponents' "ignorance." He acted as though he had the election in the bag. Mrs. Dewey went with him, wearing an expression of loving-kindness ennobled by boredom. Dewey's immediate objective was reelection as governor. His ultimate goal: the White House...
...when you add a genius for becoming mildly mellow...
Although nobody liked The Sortie of the Banning Cocq Company, it had, after all, been paid for; so the Cocq Company hung it, trusted the smoky fireplace and their mellow meerschaums to tone it down in time. Amsterdamers later moved it to the City Hall, cut three feet off its sides to make it fit its new home better...
...mellow atmosphere of the Algonquin, where he promptly established himself in a suite, hefty Ben Bodne, 43, brought a new and different tone. As a small businessman in Charleston, S.C., and onetime head of a firm dealing in home bottling supplies, he had had a run-in with federal authorities during Prohibition. Result: a $25 fine for violating the dry law. Next Bodne tried the coal business, then he started wholesaling oil. He cut no fancy figure; in Charleston he was regarded as very small potatoes. But Bodne hinted that he had made a killing in war contracts, claimed that...
...Stradivarii once owned by the great violinist, Niccolo Paganini) played Beethoven and Debussy at a brisker than usual clip, but the music was warm and dramatic. Wrote the San Francisco Chronicle's critic, Alfred Frankenstein: "Perhaps never before has one heard a string quartet with so rich, mellow and superbly polished a tone...