Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jobs. Last week, however, came an indication that this must soon end. Whether or not Arthur Morgan felt that the cause of moderation was losing, he felt that the time had come to appeal to the public. He issued a formal statement, setting down his personal views. Long and mild, indulging in no personalities, it turned out to be a state paper setting forth the fundamental choice in power policies that lies before the New Deal, expounding a great schism in liberal philosophy...
...other engaging traits include a mild manner, great personal modesty, a disarming habit of coupling every declaration with the frank admission that "maybe I am wrong," and a 15-year-old spirit of disillusionment about the possibility of getting anything liberal done for the benefit of mankind. These traits are genuine and at the same time more or less deceptive. Gentle Mr. Norris is not above personalities in debate. Modest Mr. Norris talks as often as anyone in the Senate, and tries to have the last word on every issue. Mr. Norris, who "may be wrong," in nearly every fight...
Promise is punctuated by no dramatic conflict between the principals more exciting than their opposite attitudes toward a mild young man who switches his betrothal from their handsome, animal-spirited daughter to the mother's daughter by a former marriage, a finer girl whose beauty is inward. Deep-reading observers may be able to construe these two as symbols of their mother's condition, and the play as a subtle French study of the menopause. The U. S. translation does not articulate this idea, however, and when the final curtain falls with Miss Browne sobbing in a chair...
...Sitting quietly at his maple desk, the Vagabond's thoughts wander into devious channels, and his pen following his mind as a child imitates its seniors--traces an incongruous line of thought, erratic but mild. Today he loiters before the haberdasheries of Harvard Square, gazing in vain at windows filled with things he wished his friends had given him for Christmas and wishing in vain be could return most of the things they did give him. Friends pass by. Some with tanned faces that bespeak of southern holidaying. A lucky few with ruddy faces who had found snow in which...
While most are viewing with alarm the European situation, a storm brewing in the West threatens shortly to capture their complete attention. And well it might, for the irascibile Mr. Lewis is no believer in mild-mannered dickering but in angry speech-making and drastic action...