Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bull spirit of U. S. newspapers, a red, red rag is radio's blatantly exaggerated "coverage claims." Last month mild-mannered Alexander Woollcott became an unwitting toreador in the radio v. newspaper ring. Seizing upon his radio praise of John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice & Men ("I look upon [it] as a masterpiece") the book's publishers plastered newspapers in Chicago, Boston and New York with the claim that Pundit Woollcott had spoken thus "in speaking to 69,540,000 people...
...cleavage between brewers and distillers was emphasized further last week at a Manhattan meeting of the new United Brewers Industrial Foundation, devoted to promoting beer as a mild, nutritious beverage "for the American Home." Absent were the distillers as brewers talked of disassociating beer and hard liquor as much as possible, a maneuver to help their cause in the event of Prohibition's return...
With the last months of 1936, I thought I felt boredom creeping into my former unrefined enjoyment. Your stodgy treatment of the Woman of the Year made boredom too mild a word for what I felt...
...When the children decide, as an alternative arrangement, to send their father to a daughter who lives in California, their mother to an old ladies' home, it solves the situation for everyone except Lucy and Barkley. They meet in New York, spend their last evening together on a mild spree and then, in a scene marked by its skilful reticence, say good-by at the train. Good shot: Lucy and Barkley accepting an invitation to try out a new car by a salesman who suspects that their modest clothes and quiet bearing are the insignia of wealth...
Getting off to a fairly convincing start, "King of Gamblers" proceeds to drift downhill with amazing rapidity. Claire Trevor as a blonde night club singer exercises her vocal organs with mild success for the first few minutes of the performance, but when the plot begins to thicken, the interest of the audience takes a definite slump...