Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate he was a mild reservationist on the League of Nations question and in favor of Mr. Harding's World Court proposal. He knew President Harding intimately, in fact, was a member of the "golf cabinet." Mr. Kellogg held a post in the Foreign Relations Committee, and is an expert on international law. After he became a lame duck, he declared that he was " not a candidate for any appointment, didn't want any job and would not accept...
...possible that the début program was deliberately temperate in deference to the inexperience of American audiences in theatrical terrorism. Frantic screeds from the offices of the promoters asseverated that the true spine shatterings would begin with the second week's bill. Mild scepticism greeted these promises. The cynical theatrical population dared the visitors to rearrange its smooth marcel into a prickly pompadour...
...feathers, neither are whipping parties for the assistant deans contemplated. "The main object of the Klan at Harvard is to institute compulsory chapel." This article has brought a vast amount of relief to Cambridge, for terrible as the prospect of compulsory chapel may be, yet it is mild compared with those things which we usually associate with the Ku Klux Klan. Yesterday's rush of people to the Coop's timetable rack will be replaced by a steady stream, larger as the Klan gains power, of customers buying alarm clocks...
...surmise that a mild case of political jealousy had arisen between Governor Pinchot and President Coolidge over who should have credit for the settlement of the anthracite strike was apparently confirmed. The President sent the Governor a message of congratulation on the conclusion of the strike. Governor Pinchot did not publish the message. It was presumed by the ever-suspicious press that Governor Pinchot had wished to claim the settlement as his sole achievement, but that the President's message inferentially suggested coöperation in the result...
...fence. But perhaps there is light ahead. Some months ago Senator Johnson complained that he had no issue on which to fight President Harding for the Republican nomination; it is possible that Mr. Coolidge will give him a chance. But even if Mr. Coolidge and Mr. Johnson are as mild as two lambs, the presidential election itself is rather likely to offer the supporters and critics of the League an opportunity to vent their wrath and their accumulated knowledge and perhaps to settle at least one of our paradoxes...