Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offspring who proves to be a very pretty girl and a good one even if she does have some shadowy connections with the underworld. Fundamentally it is one of those things which the playwrighting Spewacks diagnose as "Boy meets Girl; boy loses girl; boy gets girl"; wholesome, mild and quite safe. The humor is light and fairly well paced. It's nice quiet reassuring amusement with a mellowness apparently aimed straight at the maiden aunt section of the audience, which must be considerable...
...Anyone who read the article entitled "Whoa-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho" in the Jan. 20 issue of TIME, could scarce help carrying away the impression that: 1) Benny Goodman caused the present mild interest in swinging. 2) That Benny has the best swing band in the world. 3) That Louis Armstrong was passe...
Accomplished, beloved and in manners most mild...
...Century: "It is about as certain as anything can be that as soon as the business forces of the country wake up to what is happening with this growth of church interest in co-operatives they will loose a blast which will make their complaint against Roosevelt's mild economic experimentalism sound like a Schumann-Heink lullaby...
...Evanston, Ill. gathered a regional meeting of the Methodist Federation for Social Service whose executive secretary, Professor Harry Frederick Ward of Union Theological Seminary, is a prime target for Red-baiters. Because small, mild-looking Professor Ward was present, and because the meeting voted not to make its deliberations public, Chicago religious editors purposely performed marvels of Pharisaical reporting. They made much of their conclusion that "Red" literature was for sale at the meeting. Rev. John Evans of the Tribune inaccurately reported that the Federation voted to cooperate with Communists. The Conference of Methodist Laymen, whose secretary, a Chicago businessman...