Word: tamely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trail's a lane, the trail's a lane. Dead is the branding fire. The prairies wild are tame and mild, All close corralled with wire. -Badger Clark...
...swigging crowds); "wearying" (the 82 miles of exhibits, the hard gravel walks, the heat); "exasperating" (the incessant cries of "'Yeah, Folks!" "Step this way folks." "Hot dawgs, hot dawgs!" "Mister, have you tried our health drink?"); "amusing" (the comments of the crowd); "salacious" (the sideshows of the Midway); "tame and unoriginal'' (the same shows...
When a point in John Pierpont Morgan's first day testimony before the Senate subcommittee provoked a long and involved colloquy, Banker Morgan made the deprecating remark: "I'm sorry I started such a hare." The hare of that particular argument was tiny, tame, soon forgotten. But the big, wild hare that was started by Banker Morgan seating his bulky frame in the witness chair, bounded across the front pages of the nation's Press for the rest of the week, leaving a redolent, black trail of streamer headlines...
Altogether the performance was tame for the Bonettes who are not brothers but father and adopted son. The father, "Professor" Clarence C. Bonette, 61, looks like Adolf Hitler and has a complete mouthful of gleaming gold teeth. He has been ballooning and jumping for exactly 40 years. He was taught by Sam Baldwin of the late famed Baldwin Brothers who began barnstorming soon after the Civil War and had a "balloon farm" near Quincy, Ill. Father Clarence, who limps, boasts that he has at various times broken every bone in his body. Says he: I'm a fatalist...
...laws but permits high, low and broad churchmen to air their views. Bishop Scarlett defended his intercommunion service, pointing out that Jesus Christ was no sectarian. Leader of the opposing side was another Episcopal Johnson-Colorado's popular, high-church Bishop Irving Peake Johnson, called ''The Tame Lion." Bishop Johnson growled about jellyfish and other spineless creatures who make compromises, start conflicts. Let the Church keep the bars up and avoid trouble. Intercommunion would ''make the Episcopal household of faith a cafeteria." Said he: "If such practices are persisted in, I should feel...