Word: soft
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...examples that are worthy of attention. The portrait of "Hervey Wetzel" is one of the best with its fine composition, line, and tonality. It is a three-quarter length in profile against a silvery grey background. Henry Wetzel is seated on a chair, the outline of which is a soft undulating line. The splendid contrast of this with the hard vertical lines in the background adds aesthetically to the pictures. The eye also follows diagonal lines all of which form into a well balanced composition. The features themselves are obviously well done and strongly painted. In "Mrs. Gardner's Portrait...
Among those who came ashore from the presidential yacht Mayflower, after last fortnight's weekend cruise, was the blocky soft-spoken senior U. S. Senator from Kansas, Charles Curtis. Two days later Senator Curtis, smiling seriously, gave out press copies of a letter he had just mailed out to Kansas, where Curtis-for-President clubs have been organizing since August. Senator Curtis' letter said...
...most notable witness called, however, was Mile. Haia Greenberg, 29, a curly bobbed-haired nurse. In a soft, low voice, she told of the carnage and rapine ordered by Simon Petlura and of the blood-bathed home of her grandparents. Murmured...
...appears at the University of Vienna to lecture to classes in neurology and psychiatry. When he enters the lecture room the students salute him by standing. In a soft, kindly voice and with simple terms he explains that in paresis the spirochetes attack first the meninges (covering of the brain). Later they ulcerate the front lobes of the brain. Paralysis results. Attacks of malaria seem to cure the ulcers. A paretic patient can never be completely cured...
Similar operations have been done on about 600 U. S. people now living. They respire through their throat opening. To prevent inhaling of dust and dirt, the hole is screened with gauze which a soft rubber ring holds in place...