Word: soft
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ragged micks in the streets threatened to "Fletcherize" their little enemies. Gradually, the fad died because people were too lazy or too busy with other things to give the required 45 strokes to every mouthful. One still sees the last adherents to Fletcherism, nervous and deliberate oldsters, attacking their soft boiled eggs with sly and dreary routine...
...mildest form of the disease is a little cracking or scaling between the toes. A vegetable parasite, related to the mould that grows upon stale bread, gets deeply into the skin. Soft corns are frequently due to ringworm infection. Sometimes the mould causes blisters, scaly eruptions, wartlike growths. Blisters may break and cause a wet, oozing surface that becomes covered with scabs...
Phillips-Jones Corp. (first soft-collar makers): $249,206 against...
...even third class sleepers, not yet to be found in France, Spain, Italy, Balkans. Citizens of the U. S. could have similarly cheap sleeps, en route, were they not democratically unwilling to lie down in a class inferior to "Pullman." Russians have got round the class distinction by installing "soft" and "hard" sleeping cars...
...patriotic fervor, that Belgian papers reported the fainting of numerous grief-stricken British War-mothers, War-widows, and War-sisters, who were quickly revived in first aid stations provided for that purpose. Solemn and inspirational was the chanting of 0 Valiant Hearts Who to Your Glory Came! Finally, when soft, repressed sobbing had become general, the Primate of England cried, referring to the War: "Was it all worth while? Here at this gate let there be no faltering in the answer, 'Yes, a thousand times...