Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Madison was in mild excitement, half the town accusing me of undermining the sanctity of family life. I, therefore, refused to approach delicate topics in an hysterical atmosphere unsuited to their discussion, but nonetheless stuck to my subject. The meeting was an enormous success...
...hundred native police, local militia, and the 68th U. S. Infantry suppressed native enthusiasm. Lindbergh was not swamped on disembarkation by crazy students, girls detailed to kiss him, autograph hunters, well wishers, drunks, people. The second experience was an unexpected message from the local Congress requesting in no mild terms freedom for Porto Rico. Apparently there is far less sweetness and light in West Indian relations with U. S. than press dispatches and Lindbergh welcoming crowds might indicate. The Colonel refused to state whether or not, or to whom he would deliver the message. The third experience was a Rotary...
Because no one of the members* of the Commission is an Indian, there have been roused such furies of resentment and misunderstanding that mild, humanitarian Sir John Simon had to be escorted last week by a guard of soldiers...
Then in 1821 across the Sabine River came mild-mannered Stephen F. Austin of Missouri and his band of settlers "to redeem Texas from its wilderness state by means of the plow alone." Paradoxically, these people became loyal citizens of the Mexican Republic and ousted rebels from the land. But when Santa Anna, the Mexican general of the dark and cruel eyes, turned his guns on the Alamo (Roman Catholic mission at San Antonio), a different story began. Colonel Travis, Davy Crockett and 180 Texans refused for eleven days to be ousted from the Alamo...
Chief Argentine Delegate Dr. Honorio Pueyrredon, Argentine Ambassador to the U. S. created a mild stir by proposing a Pan-American treaty of commerce leveling tariff barriers between the signatory states. Naturally this idea went glimmering when Mr. Hughes intimated firmly that no such proposal had, to his knowledge, a place in the set Conference agenda (TIME...