Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inquisitive Second Clarinetist Muenchow, a mild rebuke for steaming off Composer Cadman's title. Julia Mood Peterkin's 1928 Pulitzer Prize Scarlet Sister Mary, a somewhat less scandalous book than the title led the Portland Junior Symphony Orchestra to believe, inspired Composer Cadman to write Dance of Scarlet Sister Mary. After he had watched a New Orleans Mardi Gras he rewrote it, keeping the theme but less than half of the actual music of the original...
...between Generalissimo Chiang and the German Ambassador Dr. Oskar P. Trautmann. acting for Japan. News of these talks, although every effort had been made by Trautmann to keep them secret, was broken by dispatches from Hankow routed to the outside world via Moscow. What were said to be the "mild peace terms" being offered by Dr. Trautmann were then released at Tokyo. Japan asks China to pay the cost of the war; she asks the Chinese Government to repudiate Communism and accept Japanese advisers; China is then to recognize Manchukuo and collaborate economically with Japan in joint air and rail...
...went to trial in San Francisco's post-office building last summer (TIME, Sept. 6), no San Francisco newspaper cared to mention the fact. Last week, however, when Federal Judge Adolphus Frederick St. Sure finally handed down his decision, local papers could no longer ignore the matter. For mild Judge St. Sure found "that Herbert Fleishhacker violated his trust to the Anglo Bank and its stockholders...
...entitled "Dear Miss Aldrich," and, strangely enough, it succeeds in being almost funny at times. Edna May Oliver stretches her face to unprecedented longitudinal dimensions, Maureen O'Sullivan glides along in a manner that is just too, too demure, and the audience seemed to enjoy themselves in a mild way. "Dear Miss Aldrich" tells the tale of a girl's fight for recognition in a newspaper man's world; it is not recommended for consumption, unless the reader is feeling in a particularly receptive mood
...doors, ate outdoors, snow notwithstanding. War came "as a personal insult." Her own War service consisted of taking in five wounded Belgians, whom she quickly turned out again as spies because they bored her. When her husband came home from the army with nerve enough to make a mild suggestion, she left him for good...