Word: mellows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...important exhibitions of Flemish primitives the U.S. has ever seen. Most notable items were seven top-notch paintings which had been smuggled out of Europe via South America and the Far East, and had never before been seen in the U.S. Painted with almost microscopic care, their colors as mellow and clear as the tone of an old violin, these pictures resembled the work of modern "primitive" artists (TIME, Feb. 9) only in the prim simplicity and occasional unconscious humor of their subject matter...
...office of the N.E.I. Chief of Staff sat the Japanese Consul General, faultlessly dressed, inscrutable Otosugi Saito, talking pleasantries. From the corridor, aides and orderlies heard him laugh, a discreet, flat overtone to the mellow gurgling rumble of their chief, Major General Hein ter Poorten. Then, as an aide in gleaming white duck showed Saito-san from the room the phone rang...
Violinist Hubermann, 59-year-old Polish Jew, has often been rated one of Europe's greatest, but in the U.S. and London he has never been such big box office as mellow Fritz Kreisler, brilliant Jascha Heifetz, musicianly Joseph Szigeti. Hubermann is finicky, fussy on the platform. Once he noticed that his audience included a dog, on a woman's lap. He stopped playing, demanded: "Madam, has your little dog paid for his ticket?", waited while woman and dog were hustled...
...Holmes-Pollock Letters ($7.50), the mellow, witty, 58-year correspondence between the late great U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and British Jurist Sir Frederick Pollock; which might just as well have been published any other year...
...trusting like everyone concerned, that mellow age and ivy will take the stern edge off the steel, bridge and vast expanses of specially-made brick interspersed with little round things, Joseph ventures to stick his inquisitive head into the entrance, on the side that bulges toward the Union...