Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris Bourse it was grand news. Rumors of mild inflation rippled on smiling lips. Speculators grinned as shares bulged, then moderately boomed. France was getting action at last from her new Premier, the youngest in French history, M. Pierre Etienne Flandin, 45, called Le Gratte-Ciel ("The Skyscraper") because he stands 6-ft.-6 in his socks and sticks up in French politics as something distressingly modern...
General Sadao Araki is Japan's champion sabre-rattler and No. 1 Militarist, but Japanese like to point out in his favor that he is personally frail-looking, mild-mannered, small, ascetic, "a mystic." Araki himself reconciles these contradictions in his character with his favorite maxim, "Be greedy only in mind." To keep fit he put in 20 minutes a day bastinadoing a dummy with a bamboo sword, until influenza laid him low last winter and politicians forced his resignation as War Minister. When he was ill, Japanese teachers collected sen from their schoolchildren to buy Araki medicine. Last...
...characteristic prudence, II Duce did not permit his Fascist Party to be represented in Montreux, Switzerland last week at the first World Conference of Pax Romanizers. President of the Action Committee is hopeful Fascist Eugenio Coselschi, devoutly anxious to be considered Dictator Benito Mussolini's intimate friend. To mild Montreux ("warmest winter resort in Switzerland") went as his guests the leaders of vaguely Fascist groups in France, the Netherlands, the Irish Free State, Rumania, Portugal, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Switzerland. No delegate showed up to represent Adolf Hitler. Moreover, two of II Duce's most ardent foreign disciples...
...consequences of last week's rough stuff: for Klein, a dislocated shoulder, mild concussion, eight stitches in his head; for Stewart, indefinite suspension...
Arriving in Manhattan three days later, Mrs. Williams, wife of the rich and retiring utilitarian, registered mild surprise when she heard the news, indignation when she learned that the shrewd couturiers had insisted that no wardrobe such as hers could be maintained for less than $50,000 per year. Exclaimed she : "Absurd ! How perfectly silly! I never spent that much on clothes. Why, with all the entertaining and traveling I do, I don't spend more than $20,000 a year on clothes...