Word: tepid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spanish people in the somewhat piteous end of the King "with his evil-looking nose and famous bad breath." First woman to be divorced in Spain, she promptly married Ignacio Hidalgo de Cisneros, who was to become Chief of the Loyalist Air Force during the Civil War. Under the tepid, professorial new Republic she lived in Rome and Berlin, where her husband, as Air Attaché, learned much of value, which, however, did not interest his Government...
...dance hall. Last week in Philadelphia's mid-Victorian Academy of Music, members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, under platinum-blond Maestro Leopold Stokowski, jiggled and swayed, did their best to lose their educated musician's sense of discipline, tried embarrassingly to get hot. The result was pretty tepid, but not their fault. William Grant Still, Negro composer of the Afro-American Symphony, had asked for it by writing a new Symphony in G Minor based on jazz, blues and other American musical idioms...
...most of this year discussion of the keystone treaty has proceeded at a tepid pace with Secretary Hull frankly in the suitor's role, Great Britain favorable to an agreement but hesitant to disturb the network of preference agreements with her Dominions which followed the Ottawa Conference of 1932. These agreements were discussed by the British Government with Dominion representatives at the Imperial Conference after the Coronation, apparently without settling which part of the Empire should make the necessary concessions to the U. S. But during the past troubled month of European diplomacy the British Cabinet suddenly took...
First serious offering of the season, the play must be bracketed with Anderson's second best oblations. The Star-Wagon lacks Playwright Anderson's customary magnitude, is bathed in a questionable, tepid philosophy, bumps to a bromidic finale. Reminiscent of sundry other tinkerings with the past (Berkeley Square, Dear Brutus, Merrily We Roll Along, If, One Sunday Afternoon, et al.), it has slight claim to originality...
Medical men who attended the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Atlantic City last week (see p. 48) found some tepid thrills. First there was the sight of high-spirited, mouse-breeding Professor Maud Slye of Chicago smiling wryly at high-spirited, mouse-breeding Dr. Clarence Cook Little of Bar Harbor. The smiling apparently ended 25 years of bickering over the inheritability of cancer (TIME, Nov. 16). To no one's surprise she popped up with her everlasting credo: "I breed out breast cancers. I don't think we should feel so hopeless...