Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cigarettes. Here Bill Tilden. Charlie Paddock, Amelia Earhart proclaim their remunerative devotion to the goddess (though Amelia did send her $10,000 reward to Byrd for his Antartic expedition). Soon Elnatein will be sold for "Not a cough in a carload"; and James Joyce's books, because "They are mild--yet they satisfy." Morning, evening, all day long chant the priests "Advertisa is great. Advertisa is great. Blessed be Advertisa, mother of Mammon. Bigger and better advertising...
...should be most jealous, following him who can lead revealingly into the mysteries of history and literature, of science, and to forego such opportunities because one is absorbed in some trival extraneous activity is simply to sell one's birthright for a mess of pottage. Folly is too mild a term for such ineptitude." President Augell of Yale...
...There is something on the track. There is something standing in the way of a clear-cut statement. ... I will leave it to your imagination, but let me say this, putting it in as mild a way as I can, the Administration in Washington must, to some slight degree, have been in sympathy with the propaganda that was put out through this country by the joint committee [Power Lobby] of the National Electric Light Association...
These comments, and others like them, sizzled from the sanctums of foremost Berlin editors, last week−even from such editors as urbane Georg Bernhard* and mild Henrich Rippler...
...Knights of Columbus seem a mild and indeed a charitable organization. It will not therefore be easy for the average person to believe that the above great swear is the fourth degree oath of the Knights of Columbus. There are those, however, who know better, and who have spent thousands of dollars circulating copies of this oath among ignorant Protestants. Aware of this and aware also that the oath has never and will never be a part of its ritual, the Knights of Columbus, meeting in National Conference last week in Cleveland, promised to prosecute six unnamed organizations and persons...