Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court. The appeal was rejected in a decision which established the constitutionality of the Criminal Syndicalism Act. In 1927, after a storm of appeals from famed sympathizers, Governor Clement Calhoun Young gave Anita Whitney a pardon. To the chagrin of many a sympathizer, most of whom were mild liberals, Anita Whitney promptly marched back to the Communist battle line as an orthodox Stalinite. In the election which led to her arrest, she polled over 100,000 votes as her Party's candidate for State Comptroller. Considered their No. 1 asset by California Communists, she is gentle, generous, indisputably...
...sent to the Boston Herald, by David Moore '36, asking the question, "What is a Harvard gentleman?" The Bulletin discarded the Herald's answer that the Harvard gentleman is the man whose gentlemanly qualities "are so unadvertised they become apparent only when they are tested" as being altogether too mild. They went searching for a definition that would leave to the Harvard man his long-cherished position as a general target for all foes...
...would be guilty of a breach of sportsmanship should it be found that they have denied the right of competition of Jewish athletes, but our case rests on an even firmer basis. The Naxis-have discriminated against Catholic sports organizations and dissenting Prostestant groups in a way which is mild only when compared with the treatment accorded the Jewish sportsmen. I refer specifically to the alternative which the Nazis have presented to their political and religious opponents: either practise under the supervision of our "Fuehrers" or don't practise at all. You know, for example, that the Deutsche Jugendkraft with...
...horse comes through and so do all his other prognostications for the day. The "boys" adopt Erwin as their oracle and with the aid of Demon Rum keep him in their hotel penning his sweet lines and doping the races. After a hectic few days of this the mild Erwin becomes a man in his own right and, considerably enriched, returns to take his place as wearer of the pants in his own home...
Trying was a mild description of Mr. Hull's hours. The custodian of an arms embargo against Italy and Ethiopia and a brace of general neutrality proclamations had, as yet, no record of actual munitions being bootlegged to either belligerent. But U. S. motormakers, it was revealed, had already shipped 2,200 trucks and busses to the Italians in Africa. Thumbing his nose at the State Department, President Walter Teagle of Standard Oil of New Jersey announced that his firm had been doing business with Italy for more than 40 years and was not ready to quit...