Word: mellowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With his prospects now in mellow and receptive mood, Administrator Bowles launched into his real sales talk. In cooler postwar years, he asserted, OPA's performance will be recognized as "one of the best jobs done during the war." He proceeded to prove it by not droning statistics, or by making belligerent assertions, but with a series of 106 big (2 by 3 ft.), easy-to-read charts, mounted on a 7-ft. easel and shifted by a clerk as Chester Bowles made the accompanying narration. Main theme: thanks to OPA, the U.S. has come off quite well...
...newspaper readers got a fresh point of view last week on the horrors of capture by the Japs. Inexplicably, Duke University published a rather jolly piece of reading on approximately the same subject. To the quiet North Carolina campus had come a sunny, mellow letter from James Halsema, Class of '40, son of the ex-Mayor of Baguio in the Philippines and now a prisoner of the Japs at Camp Holmes in the Baguio area. Duke's publicity office released to the newspapers the entire text of the letter (some 700 words), to run, presumably, in conjunction with...
...Persons and Places, and by way of them, the vitality of the Spanish-American heritage glows through the supple prose. The 262 pages of the book (another volume is to appear, and war conditions interfered with this one) are packed with accounts of life in Harvard, written with mellow good humor, of the philosophy department, written rather perfunctorily, of the Lampoon, Boston Latin School, and, ceaselessly in each new scene, the effective contrasts of the old world and the new, and the pain that was suffered by the people of sensitivity and spirit who moved from one world...
...usually mellow London Economist was hopping mad. What had excited it, and other Britons, were the terms of the new settlement of Brazil's external debt, as they went into effect last week...
...takes readers so quickly and intimately into the Cooper and Hewitt families that it virtually adopts them. Its weakness is that, through its 316 pages, no connecting thread guides the narrative, and the discursive anecdotes include ancient and doubtful ones, as well as the stories which throw their mellow light on the strange people, mores and morals of the administrations of General Grant...