Word: mildest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There is, in Manhattan, a softspoken, smoothly tailored little man, with the warmest of hearts, the mildest of blue eyes, the suavest of manners, the nicest of English accents, and the attitude toward life-so far as you would guess to hear him purring of Señor Zuloaga's portraits or the latest...
...howling against the stupidity of American life and society is so constant that the somewhat nebulous "average man" soon grows deaf to it. But occasionally there occurs an event which not only justifies complaint, but which makes the present outcry appear to be the mildest of protests. Such is the history of the New Hampshire bill to prohibit the sale of cosmetics...
...acting with praiseworthy adroitness has succeeded in agreeing upon a resolution sufficiently non-committal to be acceptable to all parties. Senators Johnson and Borah may decide not to "bolt," Senator Lodge rests upon his laurels with a sense of gratification at having overridden his opponents' objections, and even the mildest reservationists seem to have fallen in line...
...medical condition of China is startling in many ways to one accustomed to the sanitary regulations and comparatively wholesome conditions existing in the Western world. Disease from its mildest to its most hideous forms is diffused throughout China's four hundred millions of people. Up to the present time hardly any efforts have been made to deal with the abominable situation in a scientific manner. Ignorance of the sources of disease and of the ways in which disease is spread is universal. The great mass of the people believes that the gods send epidemics, or that heaven wills that cholera...
...that I, who am the Harvard correspondent of the Advertiser and Record, did not write a line of the accounts published in those two papers-notwithstanding the insinuation to the contrary in the CRIMSON. Furthermore, as I can easily prove, the two papers which I represent had much the mildest account of all the Boston papers. The only thing printed in the Advertiser that one could take exception to was a statement to the effect that President Eliot addressed the students-a mistake made without the least suspicion of malice. To supplement all this I can furnish sufficient evidence...