Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bell which that name rings in the mind has not pealed since 1915, when Joseph Little Bristow ceased to be a U. S. Senator from Kansas after six tempestuous years. In the mild-mannered gentleman who now farms and sells lots on the outskirts of Washington it is hard to find the bristle-lipped, bead-eyed, frock-coated orator of 15 years ago of whom it was said (then) that "no man better personifies the insurgent spirit of Kansas." He helped split the Republican Party for Theodore Roosevelt. Of the Six Irreconcilables (the others were Senators La Follette, Cummins, Beveridge...
...publications once chifly with in barren intellectualism have hastened to clamber aboard the bandwagon of Literature for the Many. A mild miracle has taken place, for with incentives quite mercenary the editors have done a literary good turn...
There he spoke with mild wonder of a short visit to Atlantic City calculated to lengthen, not abbreviate, his life; deplored the fact that his creditors had "come down so hard" on him, assured everyone that the embezzlement charges brought by a Mrs. Jennie C. H. Denton, who claimed $150,000, need not have been pushed so vigorously; promised: "If I can only get time to do it, I can make these debts good...
Cows. In Cranford, N. J., two mild cows stepped into the middle of a highroad and fell asleep. For one hour, motorists coaxed, kicked, whistled, roared, cursed, stroked. The two would not budge. At last three men who were friends of the cows came by. They-the chief of police, the supervisor of the school, the principal of the school-per- suaded the comfortable cows to leave the smooth, warm surface of their roadbed...
Manna serves in pharmacy as a gentle laxative, demulcent and ex- pectorant. It is good for mild coughs...