Word: tamed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decision not to publish the work until ten years after his death must not be taken too seriously. Mark Twain inserted that there were things in his autobiography which would cause a revolution if printed earlier than the year 2000, yet his work has been found more tame than epochal. Mr. Clemenceau may merely to perpetrating a Gallie hoax...
They thought, as Senator Jim Reed of Missouri was reported to have actually said: "We'll have to tame him." The taming process they regarded as easy; the Vice President, as presiding officer, has almost no power. He can only interpret the rules; while, on the floor, Senators can say anything they like about him or to him, confident that they can make him appear a jackass...
...took his maiden to "What Price Glory" unsuspectingly, was correspondingly worried as to her reaction, but when she turned to him in the middle of the second act, and, pointing to her pocketbook on the floor, said "Pick up that g--d--n bag" he decided the show was tame for her; but, to complete this rather involved sentence, while we didn't see the story in Lampy, we know it is one of the newest and best, so we feel sure that it is there...
...hint of the days when literature had a dash of spiteful fire, and principles had not yet succeeded to the commercial urge. Bagaria will, perhaps, never attain to the immortality of Swift, but his is the honor of adding at least a bit of personal invective to an otherwise tame and occasionally unconvincing national literature...
Captive muskrats, it has been found, become tame and. breed well in confined quarters. They require no feeding, as they live upon the vegetation of ponds and marshes. One difficulty consists in the great number of natural enemies the muskrat has; chief among these are the fox, mink, the larger hawks and owls and even the pickerel. The little animals breed rapidly enough, however, to recompense in the long run for their inability to protect themselves...