Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scarcely two months have gone by since the magazine's trustees took the first definite step toward getting the publication back into print with the appointment of a committee of interim editors headed by mild-mannered, pipe-smoking Donald B. Watt, Jr. '47. In the Advocate rooms between Bow and Mt. Auburn Streets, the editors have sorted graduate and undergraduate contributions in an attempt to put together a magazine of "general reader interest" and jolt their charge out of the esoteric mire that drugged circulation down to some 800 copies...
...United Nations cannot provide mild controls it cannot meet anything . . . The Japanese would accept it . . . it would be considered protective rather than repressive. It could continue as long as it was beneficient...
...Princess Conchita Sepulveda Pignatelli, society writer of the Los Angeles Examiner. Their host eats heartily (favorite delicacies: cracked crab, pheasant or duck just barely heated), and keeps the table talk on a high plane. Risque stories are out; Hearst recently reprimanded a woman guest who cut loose with a mild "damn." Every night the inevitable movie begins at 11, and bedtime...
...tradition was established by Founder Max Maurey, who died last week. It was carried on by the late Andre de Lorde, "Le Prince de la Terreur," the man who wrote the two favorite plays and many other Grand-Guignol classics. Says an old De Lorde fan: "He was a mild, sweet little man, always smiling...
...admirer of plain speaking (especially his own), Gilbert detested hypocritical modesty in women, and such "ideal" types as mild-mannered curates. Of the clergy in general he was shy and suspicious. He also disliked his fellow dramatist William Shakespeare, whose writing he considered "obscure." "What do you think of this passage?" he scornfully asked a Shakespearean enthusiast: " 'I would as lief be thrust through a quicket hedge as cry Pooh to a callow throstle.'" The enthusiast explained: "A great lover of feathered songsters, rather than disturb the little warbler, would prefer to go through a thorny hedge...