Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recently expressed will of 78% of her 250,000 subjects, the Grand Duchess Charlotte, 32, reigns and rules over Luxembourg. Her richly wooded and softly meadowed realm dozes complacently between Belgium and Germany. Her capital, the City of Luxembourg, rises aloof and serene upon a small plateau. Her mild and irreproachable consort is Prince Felix de Bourbon-Parma. Last week a dire project was under way to introduce into this quiet Eden a prodigious roisterer, a mighty brawler, a veritable Serpent...
...career of perpetual paradoxes. He was stoutly opposed to Secession. He freed his own slaves years before the Civil War. Yet he became the outstanding champion of the causes of Secession and Slavery. He was a mild-mannered Southern gentleman, so kind-hearted that he would stoop within battle-fire to restore a fledgling sparrow to its nest. But he achieved international fame in the profession of killing men. He attacked as he retreated, he retreated as he attacked. His strategy made of his opponents' successes Pyrrhic victories, brought him triumph by losing in the art which aims only...
...inserts the required number of nickels in the proper machine; out drops his package of "Three Castles"; out pops a voice from the machine saying, "Thank you-corked tips protect the lips." It blares from a phonographic attachment. Or if he prefers "Barking Dogs" he hears, "Thank you-good & mild." "It's toasted" follows the delivery of "Lucky Strikes...
...grenade. Since the first of the year they have been utilized 21 times by racketeers angry for one reason or another with fellow racketeers, politicians, bootleggers, gamblers. Last week "pineapples" exploded on the doorsteps of U. S. Senator Charles S. Deneen and Judge John A. Swanson. The results were mild for Chicago; no one was killed; only the fronts of two houses were blown to splinters...
...discharge them as his first duty. Instead he imported a stenographer, peppy, once a showgirl (Martha Sleeper). Stimulated, the dotards grew chipper, chirrupy. One bought a toupeé, all bought brassies. Skinner's big fresh idea results in the retention of dotards; in a picture feeble, mild as goose milk...