Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tsarol Decrees." Premier Mussolini, apparently reacting to the seemingly boundless devotion of his followers, called his Cabinet together and issued a series of decrees which the official Fascist press hastened to deplore as "too mild." Actually this "emergency legislation," announced to continue operative for five years, will render* the Premier very nearly as absolute as was poor Nicholas II, last, demented, murdered Tsar of all the Russias...
...dwindled to some 17,000 faithful morons. The principal result of the investigations seems to have been to crystallize resentment against Senator Watson, hitherto a Republican power and presidential possibility. He is described by Frank R. Kent, able correspondent of the Democratic Baltimore Sun, in no mild language...
...Approval. Frederick Lonsdale's genius for smart repartee dialogue finds many a brilliant opportunity in a play with only four characters. Mrs. Wislack (Violet Kemble Cooper), widow, will experiment for one month with the temperament of mild Richard Halton (Wallace Eddinger) before risking another matrimonial venture. The Duke of Bristol (Hugh Wakefield) is more of an opportunist. He sets his suave cap for immediate acquisition of Helen Hayle (Kathlene MacDonell), heiress and best friend of the canny widow. After a skirmish of wits, with no insults barred, provided only that they be smooth-edged as befits Mrs. Wislack...
...choice for the Filipinos is not between American sovereignty and Philippine independence, but between American sovereignty and that of some other nation, probably Japan or Great Britain," said Vicente Villamin, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "American imperialism is, after all, a mild imperialism, and having known America for 27 years, we who have suffered from America's tyranny of love prefer America unreservedly to any other nation on oartth...
When Joseph Carson Jr., a mild-mannered boy whose parents live in Manhattan, was voted "most brilliant" and "most intellectual" by his classmates ('21) at Princeton University, few who voted for him knew him save by sight and reputation. He was a scholarly recluse and passed much of his time in the company of a few kindred spirits of whom the leader was Lawrence Buermeyer of Reading, Pa., a graduate student and later a member of the Princeton Faculty. The friendship between Carson and Buermeyer survived their student days. They took it with them and kept it alive...