Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heroine of Playwright Harris' coy flirtation with the Facts of Life is blond Margaret Sullavan, an authentic theatrical find. Her previous experience was with Princeton's McCarter Theatre and as understudy to the leading lady in a road company of Strictly Dishonorable. She has a mild Southern accent which she keeps from becoming unpleasant, does her best to be charming and ingenuous in her messy role. The novelist is played by Roger Pryor (Up Pops the Devil). He also lets fresh air into the play, prevents it from getting too blue around the edges...
Figures from the 89 men indicated that collectively they had experienced only 49 mild colds as against 89 last year: 22 moderate colds as against 68, 16 severe colds as against 42, four cases of grippe as against seven and three colds with complications as against four
...stranger to the ways of city hoodlums, Attorney General Bennett likes to remind people that he was born in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn. Mild of manner, blond, well set up, he made precedent last autumn by getting himself elected to the State's chief legal post. Not only is he one of the youngest (37) to hold the office, but the first Democrat in eight years. In 1918 he emerged from the Army a pursuit pilot, although he never got to France. While working for J. P. Morgan & Co., he studied law at night school, was not admitted...
...that it was beefy, was more alert- charging buffalo, unlike charging domestic bulls, never close their eyes. Also, the buffalo is less susceptible to diseases than any sort of domestic cow. But it is wholly unmanageable. Therefore, the Hubbard notion: to breed a new kind of cattle, almost as mild as the cow, almost as diseaseless as the buffalo.- As an adjunct to his Rhodesian farm, Mr. Hubbard plans to build a well- equipped laboratory, not for himself but for other scientists. "There are any number of scientific expeditions going into Africa every year," he said. "Many of them begin...
Humor is not lacking in mild forms. George Biddle, in a light composition entitled "Bringing Home the Cows" has contributed a highly entertaining piece. "Lohengrin" by Adolph Dehn will raise a smile, while his other lithograph, "Pont St. Michel" is a really striking piece of work, containing a great deal of feeling...