Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week at his home in Santa Monica, next door to Norma Shearer's, Fairbanks was in bed, resting after two mild heart attacks. He had been to a football game two days before, then to dinner at his son's home. His male nurse heard the Fairbanks mastiff, Marco Polo, growling beside Fairbanks' bed, entered to find that Death, as it must to every man, had come to restless Douglas Fairbanks...
...more than half of all cases in the world occur in the U. S. and Canada, in the summertime. Reported cases in the U. S. from 1915 to the end of 1939 total 139,337. About 75%, of polio victims do not develop paralysis, and countless children pass through mild, "abortive," flu-like attacks, which produce complete immunity...
...Miller's cumulative power is a nightmare section building up to a bloody, fecund millennium in which a menagerie breaks loose, animals, vegetables and Indians run wild, and there are "no pale white faces, thanks be to Christ!" For the rest, its often funny short pieces are as mild compared to the two novels as they are wild, and fresh, relative to the bulk-and much of the best-of U. S. writing...
...American painter of unquestionable ability. . . Bellamy Partridge's "Country Lawyer" reconstructs an interesting side of rural life in an older America. . . . "The 1940 New Yorker Album" assembles an excellent selection of the most unique cartoon humor in the world. . . . James Thurber's "The Last Flower" has been causing a mild furor of late, with its poetic parable of the future of our civilization. Unequivocally recommended. . . "U.S. Camera Annual: 1940" is edited by Steichen which means that it should be the best available, and is . . . Hyman Levy's "Modern Science" is a difficult but rewarding study of the physical sciences. . . Agnes...
Extraordinarily infuriating was this mild suggestion to G. O. P. politicians. For many a month they have been debating this question: How to pick a candidate who will be the antithesis of the Democratic nominee before they know who the latter gentleman will...