Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dean Smith, a mild-mannered, middle-aged Georgian described by one of his former students as a man of "large, luminous and enlightened mind," contributed nothing startlingly original to the Court debate. The substance of his plan had already been put forward by, among others, Nebraska's Edward R. Burke, one of the leaders of the Senate opposition. Difference was that the tactful, soft-spoken Dean made his ideas seem simple, plausible, attractive...
...films at the Paramount and Fenway this week, "Outcast" and "Her Husband's Secretary", have one thing in common: they both start out as mild enough little dramas and end with hair-raising melodrama...
...month's developments on the financial, labor, and judicial fronts in the light of the beginnings of a serious monetary inflation. In view of the measures which the Administration has taken to promote a rise in prices, there can be little doubt that a process of inflation of a mild degree is underway. But with Governor Eccles talking about a balanced budget--a political impossibility--and clinging to rock-bottom interest rates, it will take more than mere "monetary monkey business" to stem the flood when it threatens to overflow its appointed bounds...
With a geniality leaning toward flippancy, suave Mr. Cummings read an amiable 5,000-word paraphrase of standard arguments for the plan, submitted himself to some surprisingly mild questioning by the 18-man committee...
...because even pai-hua is too discursive for occidental taste. Open-eyed readers of Living China will find these stories queerly human, may be surprised to find many of them bitter, strong, ironic stuff. Because they are written in pai-hua, China's national cussword appears frequently. A mild-seeming expression, "his mother's" (shortened form of "rape your mother") is apparently used to express any shade of any emotion...