Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Banker-Governor Lehman is now running for the U. S. Senate, and local adversaries took mild issue with his figures, saying that some of his indicated surplus funds were already pledged, that he had played a common little trick of year-end balance reading. Sharper issue, against a national sounding-board, was taken by the ex-Governor who created the deficit. In his speech at Covington, Ky. (see p. 7), Franklin Roosevelt digressed...
China's Ambassador in Paris, Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo last week carried to the Quai d'Orsay a mild reminder that China considered the Paracels part of her territory but added, meaningly, that China did not object to French occupation "for the time being." In Tokyo, smarting Foreign Office officials notified French Ambassador Charles Arséne Henry that "stationing of Annamite troops on the Paracels might lead to misunderstandings between them and Japanese workers on the islands," asked that the troops be withdrawn. The French Ambassador blandly assured them that "the interests of the workers would...
...plain evidence that modern German art has traced a more tragic course than that of any other European country. Still living in Berlin slums. Käthe Kollwitz reached her 71st birthday as the show opened, remained the best German woman artist. Also shown was the work of mild, good-natured Max Liebermann, who died three years ago after his work was banned, not because it was abstract, but because he was Jewish. Franz Marc, represented by his famed Blue Horse, considered by many a critic the most brilliant of German moderns, was killed at Verdun in 1916, not before...
Interned as a dangerous non-Aryan in a Nazi concentration camp was mild little Felix Salten, 68-year-old Viennese author (Bambi, The Hound of Florence) of mild little books about animals, who once said: "If you would keep men from becoming as animals, strive ever to see animals...
Died. Edward Verrall Lucas, 70, old and mild English essayist (Wanderings and Diversions, The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb), Punch contributor, head of the publishing house of Methuen & Co.; after an operation; in London...