Word: soft
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appears as a long man shrouded in a tight-fitting overcoat. At one time, he affected iron hats, or derbies, under which his benevolent spectacles gave an effect of incongruity. Of late, he has reverted to soft hats, less like the headgear of the proverbial hotel detectives...
...went out under his own window and shouted his own name, is a story based on tragi-comic fact. The story spread quickly; its pathetic aspects were soon forgotten, its humor remembered; finally its very origin became somewhat obscure. Many are the vociferous young men who make hideous the soft spring evenings without knowing why they do so, without realizing why the syllables of "Rinehart" should be echoing from Holworthy to Grays...
...Doheny two years ago. Miss Bernice Heaton, the telephone instructress, for example, would ride home from court on a trolley car and go out for the evening with a girl friend. Edward K. Kidwell, the leather worker, would go off and kill time between sessions hanging around a soft-drink stand in Four-and-a-Half Street...
Juror Kidwell, a sallow youngish man, is not what Washingtonians would call a "drugstore cowboy" and certainly not a "street sheik" just a chinless young man with prominent eyes and ears Who rather en joyed his sudden importance His soft-drink cronies would ask him about the trial and he welcomed the opportunity to give what he considered dark hints of mysterious grandeur. He would say that Harry Sinclair was a "nice, democratic guy in spite of all his money" He would say that he, Edward Kidwell was a "pretty good yes-and-no-man" and that he was "just...
...Akers, was one of Juror Kidwell's audience. Conductor Akers had an idea that autos are not what jurors usually "get out of" criminal trials Conductor Akers timidly telephoned the local Hearst paper (the Washington Herald). Reporter Donald T. King went and heard Juror Kidwell hold forth at the soft-drink stand with conductor Akers for interlocutor. reporter king then told the us attorneys office what he had heard. that office forthwith took certain covert steps...