Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps not profiteers but certainly wealthy men have supplied "Handsome Adolf" with the wherewithal to pay each member of his Gang eight marks per day ($1.90). When Storm Captain Stennes went to the Hitler bank in Berlin to cash a check for further storm funds a very mild but very firm cashier refused his check...
...Mild, sandy-haired little President Simon Strousse Baker of Washington & Jefferson college (Washington, Pa.) was about to conduct chapel one morning last week. As he finished reading an announcement, all but a scant dozen of his 432 students got up and marched out. They were striking. More than 300 of them had signed a petition demanding President Baker's removal, to be presented to the W. & J. Board of Trustees this week...
...Seven Wonders of the world. There is scarcely an ingredient necessary for "slap-stick" that has not been included in its bundle of tricks. To begin with there is the incomparable Marie Dressler in Perfect form, and here less gifted foil, Polly Moran. Add to these a husband mild to the point of meekness, a brace of typical screen brats, all the esoteric paraphernalia of a beauty shop, a sub-plot that furnishes the inevitable love interest and it may be seen that the picture could hardly mis-fire...
...bewitching his readers. When energetic Paul submerged himself in the forests of the Gabon, arm-chair expeditions were hardly conceivable. No white man before him had penetrated beyond the coast, for such obstacles as starvation, wild-beasts, disease and cannibals formed a barrier long considered impregnable. It is but mild praise to say that Du Chaillu's three trips of lengthy duration were successful...
Because influenza this year is of a mild type which has not often caused pneumonia,* the health men are not greatly concerned. Nonetheless, Surgeon General Hugh Smith Gumming of the U. S. Public Health Service saw fit to advise the public last week on how to guard themselves. His gist: "Go home and go to bed. . . . Call the doctor . . . remain in bed; eat a simple diet; take plenty of fluids such as water, fruit juices, milk, bouillon and hot soups at frequent intervals. . . . Do not take any so-called cure. There is no specific cure...