Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charge and an issue likely to impede his National Defense program and other important legislation. No such giants of debate as Woodrow Wilson faced loomed against him. Instead of Henry Cabot Lodge I, Philander Knox and Missouri's irreconcilable, tigerish Jim Reed, the 1939 President faced only relatively mild characters like Missouri's Bennett Clark, North Dakota's Nye, North Carolina's clownish Reynolds (see p. 16), and Henry Cabot Lodge II, bright but time-abiding. The great Isolationists of yore, Idaho's Borah and California's Johnson, were still on the scene (although...
...London last autumn the World Union of Freethinkers held a convention (TIME, Sept. 19). Scareheaded by some religious papers as a "Godless Congress," the milk-mild meeting piqued Soviet Russian Godless leaders because it was not nearly atheistic enough. Last week a long article in Antireligioznik, Soviet Godless journal, analyzed the meeting's skimmed milk. Its complaint: because of the "Protestant mentality" of the London delegates, too much attention was paid to the "danger of the Vatican. . . . The reactionary role of other religions was insufficiently illustrated, as all are equally harmful...
...mild crisis has colored the D'Oyly Carters' present visit. Several Broadway critics accused Martyn Green, the company's chief comic, of prancing, capering, grimacing too much as Ko-Ko in The Mikado-"putting the horseplay before the D'Oyly Carte," as Critic John Anderson referred to it. To this the Olympian D'Oyly Carters made no answer, merely continued to play, night after night, to standees...
Most important business event of last week was the opening of Congress and the jack-in-the-box stockmarket which it produced. Up on Franklin Roosevelt's mild opening message, stocks flopped on the next day's offering of his 1939 budget figures, with their near-record deficit...
Under the influence of the drug "life seems worth living again. While there is a tremendous variability" in the effect of the drug, its most common effect is "a sense of well-being or a mild state of elation...