Word: mildest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...milk-mildest exhibits in the New York World's Fair is the $250,000, garden-cloistered Temple of Religion. Carefully not consecrated by any churchman, studiously avoiding any favoritism among faiths, the Temple has scheduled only sacred concerts, non-controversial discourses on "Religious Freedom" and "God's Place in Man's Life," by priests, rabbis and ministers, in rotation...
...London's Whitehall, day before Armistice Day, no unseemly shrieks (see p. 25) disturbed the ceremony as curtains parted to reveal the late handsome Field Marshal George Alexander Eugene Douglas, Earl Haig in conservative bronze. Conservative was the mildest word many British artists had for this third effort of Sculptor Alfred Frank Hardiman, A. R. A., who has been badgered for eight years about his designs. His version of the field marshal's cavalry horse was once described by Lady Haig as "monstrous." She also considered it unnatural that the field marshal's head should be hatless...
Even the President's message to the special session was indicative of the new attitude of the Administration. Characterized by a Washington correspondent as "the mildest message of his career," the document breathed a conciliatory spirit, and went to the unprecedented length of proposing tax revision,--albeit somewhat vaguely,--and again mentioned budget-balancing. Only once did the President stoop to demagoguery, when in referring to his old whipping post, the Supreme Court, he expressed the hope that the Court will not "again deny to farmers the protection which it now accords to others...
...spite of his inconsistency and in spite of his ponderous eloquence, Senator Ashurst succeeded in driving home one point which many opponents of the President's proposal ignored. Said he: "That bill is the mildest of all the bills that could have been introduced on the subject and I marvel, in the present circumstances, at the moderation of the President. . . . His proposal does not tinker with the Constitution. . . . There is nothing in the bill that in any way restricts the Supreme Court acting as it has in the past...
...have meticulously adhered to their slogan, "Never a Dull Bout with a Dusek." Last week in Manhattan the four Duseks appeared on the same card, made themselves thoroughly unpopular by savagely thumping & kicking their way to victories in three out of four matches. Only 215-lb. Emil, lightest and mildest of the four, was unable...