Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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MOSTLY SALLY?P. G. Wodehouse ?Doran ($2.00). An amusing piece of literary confectionery, constructed with Mr. Wodehouse's usual deftness but not quite so funny as some of his other comfits. Nevertheless, Mostly Sally should gently tickle away an hour or so of mild but genuine entertainment for almost any variety of reader...
...hard to judge whether the increased interest would follow the freedom, or whether the interest is necessary firs, as a safeguard. No plan which makes a sudden change would succeed: freedom and interest must develop side, and for that reason the cautious steps of the authorities are justified. Such mild measures as the extension of the Dean's List, and greater freedom for students in more advanced courses, are a slow but cumulative means of reaching the same goal. The principle must be not indiscriminate liberty, but liberty for those who can shoulder the responsibility it implies...
...Democrat of radical tendencies-a Democratic La Follette, another Dill. It was understood that the La Follette group wanted him to appoint ex-Congressman Keating, now editor of Labor. Instead he brought about more or less of unification among all shades of Democrats, and appointed Mr. Adams, a "mild Conservative." The new Senator, a Yale graduate, a lawyer, during the war a member of the Judge Advocate's department, announced his policies: 1) Private ownership of the railroads. 2) Some modification of the Esch-Cummins railroad law. 3) Enforcement of prohibition. 4) Adequate military and naval defense. 5) Opposition...
...though one of the principal characters, an Irish solicitor named Royce, bears a pleasant family resemblance to him in speech and ways. But, nevertheless, this slight and smiling tale of the adventures of Basil Price, private secretary to Lord Edmund Troyte, will serve the average reader as an acceptably mild antidote for mental fatigue. The hero first tries to get the fishing rights of an Irish salmon-stream for his chief; then foils a deep, dark plot of some rascally picture-dealers to buy an unknown Gainsborough? subject: Great Grandmother of the title?for a song from a ruined Irish...
...wages and materials subsides. The credit situation is, however, reassuring, and, as Secretary Mellon points out, should occasion no alarm concerning overextension. But a banking stringency is not necessary to usher in a period of declining industrial activity; the business cycle before now has turned from boom into mild depression while money was fairly easy...