Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Battle" is a mild, unpretentious children's book about sheepdogs and Scots and such. A few years ago an English company screened the story, called it "To the Victor," and ended up with a picture that won all kinds of critical accolades. Now 20th Century-Fox has got its hands on the same little book, and again come up with a new title--it seems the first one (the name of a dog) had all the evil earmarks for a War Picture, a current boxoffice bane. But what goes with the title this time is not so remarkable...
...mild, soft-spoken man with a wisp of a smile poking out from beneath his usually serious manner, Mr. McNiff manifests his seldom-called-on Gaelic wrath when he sees the handiwork of the margin marker or the page puller. He is quick to point out that such abuses are the work of the determined minority, for "most of the boys are good lads." While needless rule infractions set poorly with him, he takes no stock in rules for their own sake. Instead, service for everyone is the watchword. Thus books have gone out for more than twelve hours whenever...
...promote this program, N.A.M. chose as its 1948 president Morris Sayre, 62, the tall, mild-looking president of giant Corn Products Refining Co. Like many another top NAMster, Sayre started his career at the bottom. After graduating from the University of Richmond and Lehigh University, Sayre went to work for Corn Products in 1908 as a $75-a-month boiler washer. He climbed the ladder rung by rung and never lost his modesty on the way. He likes to keep his door open to any one of his 5,000 employees who has a complaint or an idea...
...Baltimore, one Lawrence Riemer, mild-mannered piano player, was convicted of manslaughter for strangling his wife, a former circus tattooed lady. "She asked me to marry her," he explained. "She was tattooed all over, but I figured I might as well. I was lonely. . . . Then I found out she was like a wild woman...
...Statesmen. The hard core of the opposition stayed drunk for three full days. Purpose of this blueprinted binge was not escape, but sabotage of the hated measure (a mild bill for government control of Japan's coal mines). When the Speaker called for a preliminary vote, alcoholic catcalls greeted him. Then surow mow (slow motion) set in. Opposition members slowly sauntered to the ballot box. One of them, loudly complaining of an injured leg, took two minutes to climb the six-step rostrum to the ballot box. Others, magnificently squiffed, zigzagged through the chamber, stopped to chat with friends...