Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...times, it is a rabid effort at the sensational. It gives little real opportunity to Miss Keane, except to show her gifts as a quick-change artist. Amid the lustrous costumes, she is a cake of soap, foaming and floating among its own prismatic bubbles. A large and untiring cast utter the feverishly banal dialog incessantly...
...awaited Jenkins' opinion somewhat avidly. PERKINS: "Well, do you call that unbiased?" JENKINS: "I do not." 1 : "Then I lose. You both agree that it is undignified." JENKINS: "Not undignified, but not unbiased, either. A blarney article. I'm after thinking it a lot of soft soap in eulogy of Coolidge." I let Perkins and Jenkins go for one another. So, gentlemen, some call it mud slinging, and some call it soft soaping and I continue to congratulate you that it is neither...
...soft soap in eulogy of Coolidge...
...that idealism that lit the soul of the late ex-President Woodrow Wilson. But in Mexico of that day he was not understood. From the position of Mayor of Fronteras, the proud Mexican aristocrats forced him. Not a public office was open to him. This drove him to the "soap-box"; and his so-called Radical speeches inflamed the workers to red-hot enthusiasm for him, his enemies to bitter hatred...
...perhaps a permanent mark, on contemporary politics. . . . He suggests in his appearance that he would like fighting and dislike dirt. There is something military in his carriage and something pugilistic in his precise and vigorous face. He is also one of those men on whose clear and fine skin soap and water seem to produce a sheen or a glow, such as the manufacturers of a boot polish assure the world is a pedal consequence of using their particular cream. He stands very upright and square-shouldered, with a rather commanding tilt to his head, and a look...