Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city, the Iron Duke drags himself from the dance floor. He wins the battle calmly, sheds a brief tear for his fallen officers, moves on to Paris to outwit Metternich, the Tsar, Blücher and the King of Prussia. All this time, he is carrying on a mild flirtation with a young and flighty matron. When the peace of Europe is attended to, Wellington ends his philanderings, returns to London, gives his Eton sons pats on the head and winds up, as is customary for celebrities in cinema surveys of English history, with a pathetic speech in Parliament...
...once put his deepest convictions into the mouths of dancing dogs, unwed mice and such philosophical creatures as Isaiah, the stoic horse of The Woodcutter's House. When he was not bringing wisdom out of the mouths of baby tumblebugs and suckling pigs, he was engaged in mild satires on religion (The Bishop's Wife, There Is Another Heaven). But Depression, if it did not quite succeed in bringing him down to solid earth, at least caused him to desert the seraphim and the kingdom of talking brutes. His first real commercial success, One More Spring, followed...
...just as a sulphur cloud belched up, leaped into the crater. Next with a wild yell a second youth in store clothes followed the first. After that for minutes nothing happened. The tourists, their nerves tingling with thrills, turned gradually away, began to leave the crater. Just then a mild-mannered young man in a Japanese kimono inched imperceptibly toward the edge. Several Japanese ladies screamed as he stripped off his kimono, revealing a handsome torso stark naked. "Police!" cried the ladies. "Stop him!" But clean as an arrow the yellow body sped, disappeared into the curling yellow fumes, spattered...
...capable Claudette Colbert) is aided out of a subway crush by the handsome scion of one of England's best families--she doesn't realize the lofty position of the young man and unbothered by class considerations proceeds to fall quite completely in love with him. This puts a mild damper on her friendship with the likeable young newspaper man with whom she munches popcorn on Thursday evenings as the world passes by their bench in front of the New York Public Library (the unemployed having apparently gone to Florida for their winter vacation). The young Lord leaves, the young...
...first week of the year. That was three times the number of cases reported during the same week of January 1934, but only a small fraction of the 72,241 cases reported the first week of 1933. By last week doctors, who heretofore had been negligent in reporting their mild cases of influenza, hurried to report such numbers that Surgeon General Hugh Smith Cumming was led to say: "Influenza is probably more prevalent than at any time during the last five or six years. But I hesitate to call this an epidemic." The three-year periodicity of influenza epidemics still...