Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four years of bitter war and a year of uncertain peace had passed since the battleship King George V slipped into Annapolis, carrying Lord Halifax to his new post as war-torn London's Ambassador to Washington. Last week, on the eve of homegoing and retirement, the tall, mild statesman looked into the troublous future, saw Anglo-American friendship as "a patch of good firm ground on which we can stand and be secure." Said...
...operas produced by the Met, only Deems Taylor's The King's Henchman (1927) and Peter Ibbetson (1931), and Louis Gruenberg's Emperor Jones (1933) were mild successes. The last pre-Menotti U.S. opera was Walter Damrosch's The Man without a Country, which got one performance...
...good old ignorant days of Sherlock Holmes and Arsene Lupin, the thriller was a mild, usually non-murderous affair in which there was nothing more bestial than a hound with phosphorescent jowls. Today, when "emancipation is complete [and] Freud and Machiavelli have reached the outer suburbs," the pulp thriller is "a daydream appropriate to a totalitarian age . . . a distilled version of the modern political scene, in which such things as mass bombings of civilians . . . torture to obtain confessions . . . execution without trial . . . drownings in cesspools, systematic falsification of records and statistics . . . bribery and quislingism are normal and morally neutral, even admirable...
Like Pieter de Hooch. The spirit which a Princess of Orange called for in her people has already done wonders in their land. Six years have passed since the white parachutes and bombs first fell from a mild May sky. One year has passed since the invaders were routed, leaving The Netherlands' cities in ruins and nearly 10% of her fields flooded. In that year the brine-soaked polders (fields reclaimed from the sea) have been drained, and some are again growing grass for Holland's dairy herds and grain for Holland's bread. The sandy flats...
Last week, as gaunt old John T. McCutcheon rounded out his 76th year and laid aside his crayons for good, his Injun Summer was still the most popular cartoon that ever came out of the Midwest. In recent years his crosshatched, mild-&-mellow drawings, fussy and cluttered-up by modern standards, have all but vanished from Colonel Robert R. McCormick's isolationist, Anglophobic pages. McCutcheon's pen scratched its best when dipped in the milk of human kindness, and one-eyed Carey Orr's vitriol is more to the Colonel's taste. McCutcheon, in failing health...