Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...headquarters to watch the goings on, "was struck several times." ¶ A brash Yankee prisoner, brought up for interrogation, pulls hair out of the tail of Jackson's horse. When Jackson demands to know why, the prisoner explains that each hair is worth a dollar in New York. Mild, modest Jackson, victor of a dozen battles, blushes at the compliment like a girl...
...pills, a five-months-old Swedish-American Line experiment, helped. But against seasickness of that momentum and mass, nothing is much of a success. Like similar pills concocted by the Canadian Navy and the U.S. Army during the war, they are compounded of drugs (scopolamine and a mild barbiturate) to quiet the nerves. Ribbing has a refinement: an injection of the same preparation for victims too far gone to swallow. But the drugs (which are dangerous and should be taken only by a doctor's prescription) are not much help after a victim gets his larynx between his teeth...
...Shocking Miss Pilgrim" is guaranteed shockproof, but if you feel in the need of a mild aphrodisiac and like Betty Grable decollate, you could probably do worse than see the source of all this Boston-baiting publicity...
Gold in Streaks. But not all Nahanni legend was nonsense. Even from the air, the valley seems a lonely and lovely place amid the jagged escarpments (see cut). The University of Alberta's exploring Professor Alan E. Cameron, who entered the valley in 1936, explained the mild climate; chinooks (warm winds) keep the air balmy and moist. The lush grass attracts game and hot springs help warm the air. Also gold had been found there...
Excepting Picasso, who is the end-all of most switches and surprises in modern art, few can touch Kantor for variety. A mild, quiet little man whose long face is made even longer by his swooping nose and luxuriantly sad mustache, Kantor changes his style with his subjects. Last week at a Manhattan gallery he seemed to be trying two at once. Half the paintings on show were piney, briny souvenirs of Kantor's summers at Monhegan, Me. They looked a little as though they had been pasted together with pine needles and pitch. The other half...