Word: mellowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jovial Dr. Alfred Bilmanis, Latvian Minister to the U.S., had been a pet of Washington society. In his comfortable 17th Street home, he loved to relax over a mellow wine and a fine cigar, converse in any of six languages. But when he attended formal diplomatic parties, as he did frequently, he became a thorny symbol. The State Department had never recognized the armed annexation of his country by Russia. Russian diplomats bitterly resented his presence at White House functions, coolly declined invitations on the grounds of illness if he was to be present. "Bilmanitis" became a Washington gag. When...
From the other end of the line spoke Florida's Claude Pepper. In Taft's mellow old age, he predicted, Taft would remember with more pleasure his support of federal housing, education, medical aid, "than he will recall his Herculean success in putting the retarding fist of his power in the face of the multitudes struggling up the ladder of life to enjoy a few of the satisfactions to which the fortunate were born...
...before returning to London. He had just finished a business errand for Britain's crack opera company; Glyndebourne's U.S. debut at Princeton, N.J. had been set for autumn 1950, and Bing was well satisfied. Then his phone rang. His faintly accented "Hello" was answered by the mellow tenor tone of the Metropolitan Opera's Edward Johnson. Could Mr. Bing attend a performance as his guest? Rudi Bing said he would be delighted. Last week, operalovers the world over learned that Rudi had seen and heard more than Mozart's Marriage of Figaro...
...felt that it was all a lot bigger job than anyone had realized at the start. The business proposition was also a proposition in national and human subtleties. With larger perspective but undiminished determination, Zellerbach said: "It's more of a challenge than ever." Italian ministers were more mellow, too. They were thinking less in political and regional and more in overall economic terms. They were leaning on Zellerbach for counsel. They liked him fine...
...after his retirement in 1937 that Yalemen got to know him better, for President Emeritus Angell seldom missed a chance to return to campus. He was an honored guest at all Yale functions, made speeches with a wit that seemed to mellow with age. Last month, though incurably ill with cancer, he made one of his speeches at the 25th anniversary of his nursing school ("I have only one criticism ... of [nurses]. When they use a needle to stick you, they always choose a blunt needle"). That was the last time Yale ever heard him. Last week, at 79, James...