Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What is this calumny I find in the usually accurate TIME [July 23] about Albert Payson Terhune? Mild-mannered, is he? Let me be the first to rush to this anything but phlegmatic gentleman's defense...
...righteous and his anger is of the inspiring kind that would end in a knockdown drag-out fight?if he hadn't spent 62 years learning to keep in leash. He collects, as a matter of fact, all manner of weapons and murderous devices. His manners are anything but mild. Only dogs, old ladies and children escape his tongue lashings...
...started when the Government switched from free trade to protection?a switch which enabled British manufacturers to recover much business in the home market which they had lost to cut-rate foreign competitors. All last week Britain's professionally pessimistic press economists drew dire conclusions from President Runciman's mild assertion: "There are signs that the home market has reached the saturation point...
Biggest airplane ever built in the U. S., equally at home in air, water and on land, the 8-42 gave Pan American Airways plenty of cause for pride last week. But prouder than Pan American, was the mild, soft-spoken man who had designed and built this monster of the air out of a boyhood dream...
...When the bell rings, open your mouth, stop up your ears, shut your eyes and you'd better stand up because sparks are not so apt to land in your lap," said the mild-mannered, middle-aged man who was running the show. "Better wear a hat, too, if you have...