Word: mellowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harrison had been elected to the House from his native Mississippi, after eight years had graduated into the Senate. The Republicans then ruled the roost, and Pat Harrison, better than any other, showed how a politician can be effective though in the minority. Tall, lazy, mellow-voiced by nature, he was a gadfly in the Senate, deriding, denouncing, destroying the pretensions, incompetence and mistakes of the Republicans...
Preliminary arrangements indicate a party this year the Seniors won't forget in a hurry. The central attraction will be Gene Krupa's band, a "relaxed and sincere" outfit, according to experts. Rumor has it that he will stick to mellow and glidable music. Book-sick men will also be lured by plenty of food and drinks plus the usual starlight activities. Thus while ignorant armies clash by night, the Spread stands out as the last chance in College to forget that coming year in khaki...
Byrne's 15 piece combination boasts a number of exceptional soloists and features one of the most mellow five-piece trombone sections ever brought together. Star among stars is Byrne himself, who gained a name with his unique blues trombone when he took over Tommy Dorsey's spot in the original Dorsey brothers' orchestra in the resulting Jimmy Dorsey organization...
There will always be a very special place in my heart for Nick's Restaurant in New York because it's an unpretentious little sport with a mellow atmosphere not at all characteristic of the more sophisticated clubs in the Big City, but what counts, of course, is the jazz...
...guess as to the secret of his success is that he actually doesn't sing very much better than you or I, the only difference being a pleasantly mellow voice and the fact that he knows the words to the tunes. For whenever I hear him on a record, I can't help thinking of a sort of easygoing bum walking down a side street, leisurely kicking at stones in the road, occasionally running a stick along a picket fence for a machine-gun effect, and now and then humming snatches of some-silly tune that he happens to like...