Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four years ago Dr. Grover Carlton Emmons, a mild-mannered Southern Methodist who had held pastorates in the West and Southwest, became secretary of Home Missions, Hospitals and General Work for his church's Board of Missions. Unsure what his general work was supposed to be, Dr. Emmons finally decided to publish a devotional periodical. He planned one. and found a name for it when he heard a Richmond minister mention "the Upper Room"* in a sermon...
...daughter of a Civil War veteran, who left her enough money to amass a valuable collection of antiques and a reputed fortune in unmounted gems. She queened it over a household composed of her aged mother, Mrs. Lucinda Trow, and her half-cousin and husband, Sumner Knox, a mild little man who had been a mail clerk, later worked in the county relief office...
...State chain-store taxes go Colorado's is mild, since it is graduated from $2 for the first store up to $300 for each store over 24. But it is the only State chain-store tax actually voted into existence. Similar taxes in 21 other States were all enacted by legislatures inspired by particular groups...
...waiter named Gustl "suffered from a mild nervous disorder," which consisted of brushing the back of his hand (become as sensitive as fingertips) against the hips of women guests. Gustl particularly loved Jewish weddings, "there was such wonderful material for his hobby," so Ludwig, who by then had risen to assistant banquet manager, always gave him "stations with round women, and it was charming to see how he could not do enough for them...
Louis Pergaud, author of this mild anti-militarist propaganda, was killed at Verdun in 1915. The picture was procured last summer by Mrs. Rand...