Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...always have in the theatre that feeling of just waking up from a nightmare, with all the thrill of emotional participation and none of the consequent hazards. You can get the keenest satisfaction out of a mild taxicab flirtation in Anything Might Happen, with no anticipatory tremors at sound of the clicking meter. You can share the Parisian amours of the charming wife and somewhat less charming husband in The Love Habit with no fear for your ultimate respectability. You can listen to the sweet mutual nothings of Romeo and Juliet, and your amorous envy will be allayed by prescience...
...miles. This is not only a new high record for January- usually a poor month because of weather conditions-but exceeds the record of every month in 1921, and all but two months in 1922. The factors in the increase are not easily separated. Mild January weather was doubtless a contributing factor. So was a general improvement of business conditions. If the unusual January record should be followed by similar high records for the Spring and Summer months, it may materially influence the decision of Congress in regard to the railroads during the next Winter session...
Isadora Duncan: "The United States Department of Labor decided that I am not an American citizen because I married a Russian prior to the Woman's Separate Citizenship Law. That is a mild way of saying that I am likely to be prevented from landing as an undesirable alien, if ever I try to return to America. 1 should worry...
...Mild weather eased the suffering caused by the shortage and quickened coal movements. In response to the Walsh resolution in the Senate, the Interstate Commerce Commission refused to lay an embargo upon coal exports to Canada in order to benefit New England...
...sprang from the suicide of Vivian Tanner, a "Blue Coat" boy of Christ's Hospital, who had been "ragged" for poor playing in a football game. The headmaster of Christ's Hospital was reported to have said that "If a boy acts badly as a linesman a mild kick is not an excessive punishment." The result was a storm of indignant protests. Then Canon Lyttleton of Eton published his opinions including the sentences quoted above. Followed more indignation. Interviews with headmasters, teachers and laymen representing every shade of opinion began to appear in the press. And apparently...