Word: mild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night last week a little brown-haired woman, shy and mild of manner, went quietly to her bed in a small private room inside the locked doors and barred windows of the Arizona State Hospital for the insane. Not till 11 o'clock next morning did attendants jerk down the covers to see why 34-year-old Winnie Ruth Judd wasn't up & about. They found rags, shoes, bottles, soap neatly arranged as a Mrs. Judd-size dummy, but no Mrs. Judd...
Sharpest possible contrast to loud, big boned Mr. Fish is Virginia's quiet, studious Clifton Alexander Woodrum. If a composite of typical U. S. businessmen could be assembled and varnished, he might look like Mr. Woodrum. The gentleman from Roanoke is milk-mild about everything but the public debt; only New Deal extravagance burns...
...Japanese Foreign Office has always been a sort of super-club. Its positions offer security, rank, travel, perhaps titles, and most important, a chance to represent the Emperor. When it heard about the proposed Trade Ministry, it rose in its pride and told its new Admiral-Minister, huge, jovial, mild Kichisaburo Nomura, to make the Cabinet behave...
Although the U. S. is the world's No. 2 wool producer (1938 total: Australia 938,000,000 lbs.; U. S. 436,500,000; Argentina 385,000,000) it is not self-sufficient. Relatively mild climate makes U. S. wool fine-fibred, usable only for apparel, draperies, upholstery, etc. Yet in the apparel class alone the U. S. produces only 70% of its consumption, had to import 94,000,000 lbs. in 1937. With the chief suppliers, Australia and New Zealand (1937 aggregate, 51,000,000 lbs.), now out of the market, wool producers today can see bright days...
...getting as far as taking down her dress before he remembers to send Tom away. This scene, equal parts Steinbeck and Pierre Louys, is followed by a touch from James Oliver Curwood when Pete kills a farmer in hand-to-hand fight. The story then swings quickly to mild Faulkner ; Tom loses Pete but finds Lucy, a wild little girl who runs away with him because "dad's got so he's queer with...