Word: soft
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stubbornly sticking to its original, quiet neighborhood, The Players is not an actors' club in the popular sense.* The few that love it go there; a very few live there. There are card rooms and pool tables; soft chairs for reading; writing desks. In the back is a small garden around which runs a veranda where the members dine in summer. The club is always quiet, although from the peculiar demands of its actor members it stays open late at night. In these days Don Marquis may be often seen there; Jules Guerin, the painter; Otis Skinner; John Barrymore...
During the summer months the gymnasium has undergone various renovations. The old soft coal boilers have been removed, and the building is connected with the main heating system of the University. A new flood-lighting system for the main floor has also been installed...
...great-grandson, James Boswell Talbot, Sixth Baron Talbot de Malahide, visited his Scottish estates, the Castle of Auchinleck. Rummaging in a closet, his hand found a peculiar trunklike cabinet, made of a dark and heavy wood. In its drawers and cubbyholes there were a lot of old papers, so soft they made no noise when Lord Talbot shuffled them together and lifted them out of the box. Very gently, burning with excitement as if he had been touching gold, Lord Talbot laid them on a desk. Then he began to read slowly, the words his great-great-grandfather had written...
...part of the regular concert program, and as the furnishers of dance music on suitable occasions. The newest addition, the Speciality Division, has rapidly won an important place in giving unusual and attractive numbers to the Club programs throughout the concert seasons, such as ventriloquism, sleight of hand, soft shoe and clog dancing, musical specialities, and the like...
...soft, green, magic carpet was unrolled at the Meadow Brook Club, L. I., between squat wooden structures, blue as robin's eggs. Into the squat structures poured more men with monocles than ever before gathered in one place in the U. S. Many of them wore suede shoes; blue jackets with brass buttons, and nearly all of them soft grey felt hats. With them their ladies, gay in scarlet and gold, green and white. The squat structures were nearly saturated with rich men, sportsmen, society men and their ladies, when out on the magic carpet the witch- ery which...