Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before starting for Washington to confer with President Hoover on War Debts, President-elect Roosevelt spent a quietly busy week which, for him, began in his big, high-backed mahogany bed in the Albany Executive Mansion. Recovering from a mild attack of influenza, he wore a blue silk dressing gown over a white sweater and pajamas when a dozen newsmen trooped into his high-ceiled bedroom for an interview. His bed was littered with letters and telegrams. On a table stood a glass of milk...
...Mild, abject Indians who somehow managed to spring bewildering surprises on both the First and the Second Indian Round Table Conference, managed to spring a few more last week, as dignified Scot MacDonald opened what he called, with characteristic optimism, "The Third and Final Conference...
...delude a detective he is forced to pose as a torero. No one who knows Cantor technique needs to be told what he forgets to wear into the arena: his trousers. The funniest part of The Kid from Spain is the chase which comes when a bull, not the mild educated one that he expects, but a monstrous angry black one named Diablo, pursues Cantor about the ring and then into the aisles, loping lightly over a high fence. Cantor chloroforms the bull, climbs into a box seat for a duet with Lyda Roberti. She is a Senorita Rosalie whose...
...ceremonies. Amherst was quiet. Seniors sat on their fence, as only they may do. Somewhere about was "Dean"' Burns, the campus character who imagines he is the dean of Amherst, of Smith, of Mt. Holyoke. Many a student walked over to nearby Smith, whose ladies observe "They're mild but they satisfy." Then all over Amherst went the tantalizing news that Sabrina had been on view. Not only that, but Sabrina had been photographed, in the company of President King. Was it possible that Sabrina would reappear for the inaugural...
...Manhattan, the American Museum of Natural History horticultural exhibition showed a new vegetable, the topepo, cross between a tomato and a pepper, four inches in diameter, light yellow, uncookable, tasting like a mild pepper...