Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leonora, his wife, one of the brightest stars of the British stage, informed interviewers how sincerely she yearned for the simple, homey existence her public would never really allow her. But when she got her chance at true domesticity?and her daughter, Faith, as the result of Robert's mild engineering, made a howling success of a part supposedly written for Leonora?she found the back seat a little too hard for her temperament and returned to the stage. A slight, amusing comedy...
...MARGIN?Aldous Huxley ?Doran ($1.75). Seventeen brief notes and essays by the most brilliant young literary man in England. Pleasant, intelligent, rather entertaining little papers. The astonishing thing about them is that they are so mild. So very mild. The book might have been written by almost any bright young gentleman who chose to model his style on that of E. V. Lucas. Did you ever think you were about to degust a genuine pre-War cocktail and then discover as you swallowed that the beverage was strictly...
...match, however, was mild in comparison to the doubles finals, in which Lewis N. White and Louis Thalheimer, University of Texas, won the championship from Lucien Williams and Arnold Jones of Yale. Five sets were necessary. In the third the Texans were twice within two points of victory but receded before a violent rally which the Yale players sustained through two sets. The effort, however, wore their game thin and the Southerners won as they pleased in the closing games. The score...
...former Crown Prince: "Women Around the Crown Prince is a book promised by a Leipzig publishing house next month. Advance reviewers say it is mild...
Gibson, who tells the stories to the author, is nothing short of a modern Baron Munchausen, and has nothing to be jealous of as far as the latter is concerned. In brief his tales are obviously nothing but mild lies, or flights of a distorted imagination which Gibson lets run riot whenever the author seems to be on hand. Everything is covered in the course of the nine stories for which Gibson is responsible, from an inebriated Kentucky Colonel's affair with a "lady of the ensemble" to an H. G. Wells tale of a machine in which one sees...