Word: mildered
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...interesting discrepancy in the emphasis placed on a particular piece of news appeared yesterday in the disposition of the aluminum trust story by leading metropolitan dailies. The World featured the story. Its milder Democratic ally, The New York Times, not feeling so strong a proprietory ardor in the invistigation, allowed it a column in the middle of the first page and a one column head. But the front pages of three Republican papers, The New York Herald-Tribune, The Boston Herald, and The Boston Transcript, were guiltless of the news. It found one column space on page three...
...better circus nor a page from Livy, but the proposed stock list of the Pacific Coast Sportsmen's Club, Inc., of Los Angeles. A fortnight ago, a director of that corporation declared it would fence off 50,000 Californian acres-20,000 for carnivorous creatures, 30,000 for milder fauna-and save U. S. sportsmen the trouble of trekking over the globe for exotic prey. There would be "annual buffalo hunts"; one would bag one's lion or leopard "between a game of tennis and a round of golf." Further details of so imaginative a venture were lacking...
...Milder minds who crave effortless amusement for August evenings are commended to Chariot's Revue, Keep Kool, Kid Boots, Innocent Eyes...
...Harbor in the Aleutian Islands, awaiting Commander F. L. Martin who was still at Chignik, the last stopping-point on the American continent. They have travelled a few hundred miles less than MacLaren, but they have almost covered the worst part of their itinerary and will now head to milder, southern climes. MacLaren's worst troubles...
Ages went by, and then came the coffee house with its milder potation, but no less owlish frequenters. Mighty Johnson leveled with his catapultic shots his enemy's defense, and set himself up as the literary pope. Authors and books received the most attention in these clubs of the time, but Johnson saw fit to take a random shot at Berkley's "non-substantiality of matter" theory, and shook it with a mere foot blow...