Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week's trade-paper advertisements rubbed it into AP unmercifully. International News's spread bluntly stated: "The Cleveland News, first newspaper to be supplied with Associated Press Telephoto, RELIED exclusively on International News Photos for first pictures of the burning Morro Castle." That jibe was mild compared to Acme's. The latter in a two-page layout showed facsimiles of the New York World-Telegram and the New York Sun the day of the disaster. The former, labeled 12:15 p. m., bore a large picture by Acme of the liner ablaze. The Sun, labeled...
...last week's set to over newsphoto supremacy in the pages of Editor & Publisher was generally considered only a mild prelude to the cut-throat battle ahead, if and when AP's telephoto service opens fire...
...controversy it desired. The newsy Art Digest carried as its leading article an acidulous diatribe against Dartmouth and its murals by Harvey Maitland Watts, a director of Philadelphia's Moore Institute of Art, Science and Industry. Prouder of his "The Gulf Stream Myth and Its Relation to the Mild Climate of Europe" is Critic Watts than of any other item in his career as a lecturer and author. Wrote he in the Art Digest...
Nura's evanescent, occasionally rhymed tale traces the history of a grave, unearthly, mild-mannered girl from birth beneath a Buttermilk Tree to motherhood. More interesting to most readers will be Nura's black and white pictures which achieve charm by combining a simple mysticism with an awareness of actuality. Animals, playthings, schoolbooks surround the solemn child as she grows up. At 15 she stares into space, a mirror on her lap. She emerges into starry light, the world at her feet, on her bridal night. "Full Bloom" shows her, arms outstretched in the shape of a cross...
...package of incriminating bonds into his safe deposit vaults, Ezekiel Cobb decides to use brusque methods. He rounds up every malefactor in Stockport, locks them in a cellar, threatens to have them all beheaded with a sword, which he sharpens before their eyes. After they have confessed their misdeeds, mild-mannered Ezekiel lets them go. He decides the cigaret girl will make a satisfactory wife and that he does not need to go back to China. Says he: "Why should the meadow lark carry food to the sea-gull's children when her own young are famished?-Ezekiel Cobb...