Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These were mild eulogies, spoken by men who might not now be alive, were it not for the sanitary, antiseptic methods which Lister taught the midwives of his time. Many men have forgotten Joseph Lister's work in antisepsis. Few now know the meaning of "to listerize" and of "listerism," words brought into the language as a tribute to him. Were it not for the Lambert Pharmacal Co.'s broadcasting of Listerine (aromatic antiseptic), his name would have disappeared altogether from the colloquial tongue...
...aprons, and even tie gauze masks over their mouths to prevent foul breath contaminating the entrails of patients. Many surgeons realize the "why" of their precautions; most take their procedure for granted. Lister to them, as to the vast majority of their patients, is now-except for a mild centennial-only a name, a Hippocrates, a Galen, a little revered Esculapius...
Before the Canadian House of Commons, at Ottawa, the Speaker, Rodolphe Lemieux, created a mild sensation last week by descending from the Chair and speaking as follows from the floor: "The Postmaster General and the Minister of Customs are both Christian gentlemen, and I hope they will confer together and devise some means to exclude from Canada the numerous pornographic newspapers and so-called 'tabloids' which are now being imported from the United States and sold on every street corner in the large Canadian cities...
Wilson went to No. 2340 S Street to die. His Cabinet scattered to their distant homes whence they had been so glamorously summoned. Mild-mannered Albert Sidney Burleson, Postmaster General (1913-21) was off to Austin, Tex., to build up & neglected law practice; behind him he left the days when he was overlord of mails, telephone and telegraph, when cables could be confiscated at his command. Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy (1913-21), no longer master of Admirals, went back to the sleepy North Carolina town of Raleigh. There he shifted from cutaway to a well-worn coat, settled...
...fake Sultan of Zanzibar, since become a British painter famed for his mild demeanor, was once accorded thunderous salutes and every other courtesy when he inspected the British fleet...