Word: milder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pastor McClung's congregation was unsympathetic, kept his phone buzzing with spirited protests. Milder than most was the understatement of red-faced, elderly Elder R. V. Castles: "A preacher would be lowering his aspirations if he sought to become a movie star." Parson McClung took counsel with himself, finally told his flock he would stay with it. Said he tearfully: "I never intended to do anything wrong. . . . The opportunity would have given me much leisure time to do church work. I . . . thought it was the proper thing to do, especially when I would start at a salary ranging from...
...case. John Bellinger was dissatisfied with his status as a dishwasher, they said, and he felt in his unconscious mind that he could not face the world, so he turned his back on it, attempted to retreat into a happy past. He had a simple case of hysteria, much milder than that of many sensitive persons who suddenly become blind or paralyzed when faced with an intolerable situation. Dr. Stapleton began to investigate Bellinger's "life activities from birth to the present," prepared to discuss Bellinger's conflicts with him, hoped to "reeducate him regarding a more adequate...
...different here than in the community at large," said Dr. Bock. "It is all over Boston." Dr. Bock gave assurance that the cases were a milder form of the malady, which he called "bronchial pneumonia...
Last night's resolution by the Cambridge Council is milder than what one would expect from Councilman Don Quixote Sullivan and his Sancho Pansa Mr. Toomey. Perhaps those two windmill-tilters are tired after their great fight of last November when they saved the city from the dripping jaws of Harvard, or perhaps they read the article in the December Harvard Progressive on "The Case for Cambridge" and found therein food for thought. This essay directed at the ill-will that exists between Harvard and Cambridge, gathers a mass of facts on the matter and interprets them in a reasoned...
Though three thousand miles separates us from Europe's sore spots, in contrast with England's one hundred miles, our milder degree of unpreparedness nevertheless warrants close attention. First, during the Fall, the various maneuvers of the Army revealed a scarcity of anti-aircraft equipment, of different types of mobile guns, as well as insufficient guns to protect the coast. The production, or at least distribution of new rifles to soldiers has been slow. Second, it has just been admitted by Admiral Leahy that completion of some of the ships for the Navy has been held up due to lack...