Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress, 4,500 farmers and farm women gave him a hand as his white shoes waded through the inch-thick dust on the dirt floor to put him before the microphone. Save for paying his compliments to Germany (see p. 9), he delivered a mild defense of NRA: "When anybody tells you that NRA and the Blue Eagle have not done for the farmer all that he hoped, you can confidently tell them to go jump in the lake...
Written by hulking, mild-mannered Albert Payson Terhune, whose dog stories have been so successful that he has never had much chance to write anything else, Whom the Gods Destroy is ideal cinema material: sad, intelligent, dramatic and improving. Handsomely photographed and directed by Walter Lang in such a way as to extract the last tear from every situation, its importance as a picture is that it may launch Walter Connolly as a U. S. Emil Jannings...
...Lowell). The old lady lives in a brownstone house opposite Angie's night club. When Lance, running away from Angie's gunman, comes through her back door, she takes an interest in him. When he needs an alibi for the murder of Angie, she supplies it. A mild fable with a morbid personnel, Midnight Alibi is impaired rather than improved by Richard Barthelmess, who makes grotesque faces when he tries to talk tough out of the corner of his mouth...
Finally, as the week drew to a close, the whole convention sulked with a plain case of hurt feelings. Pedagogs patted their palms as Secretary Robert C. Moore of the Illinois State Teachers Association blurted out their grievance: "Our meek attitude and mild resolutions must cease. It is all too clear that we have little recognition as a power. We determined to come to Washington in the heat, thinking it probable that the President of the United States would like to address us. We have sweated and we have sweltered but not one single personal or official word has come...
...Gomez eccentricities are neither the result of mild dementia nor a desire to attract attention. He is somewhat absentminded. Pitching against Cleveland in his first year with the Yankees, he was warned to be careful of Averill, who was on a batting rampage. At the beginning of the second inning he whispered anxiously to Catcher Dickey: "Be sure to let me know when Averill comes up." Catcher Dickey informed him that Averill had struck out in the first. The following year the Yankees were playing a crucial game against Washington; there were two men out and three on base; suddenly...