Word: soft
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first half of the telegraphic golf match with the University of Oregon the Harvard players were badly beaten. This was doubtless due in a large part to the fact that the Belmont Springs Course was very soft with slow greens and long grass whereas the Eugene. Oregon, course, as stated in their telegram, was hard with conditions excellent for play...
Cabinet posts not held by Il Duce are: Justice, Finance, Public Instruction, Communications, National Economy. Senator Luigi Federzoni, famed "Soft Speaker of the Vatican," from whom Signor Mussolini took the Ministry of Colonies last year (TIME, Dec. 31), was last week elected President of the Senate...
...Miss Setsu Matsudaira was a pupil at the Friends (Quaker) School in Washington, D. C.. where her father was until recently Japanese Ambassador. Last week she stood in a smart Paris frock at the right hand of the Son of Heaven, and made gracious small talk in soft, Washingtonian English with the British Prince...
...town of Guanajuato. His middle-class parents gave him Spanish and Aztec blood. It is only the Aztec heritage that he prizes in himself and in his country. He spent his childhood and adolescence in Mexico, studying art at the Mexican National Academy where his early work showed the soft imitative convention. Like most young artists he looked first to the Old World. He lived a dozen years in Paris, married a Russian. His restless, probing intellect carried him into Cubism, for a while, but he traveled to Italy and saw the Primitives, compared their simple legends with the confusion...
...Vincent Bendix him self is perhaps most "at home" when entertaining tycoons, on the 38th floor of the Bankers' Building on Chicago's Clark Street. He sits at one end of a large, glass-topped table, around which are nine straight-backed chairs. There are five windows,, softly curtained, and a thick soft carpet. Along one entire wall is hung a tapestry which reaches from ceiling to floor. Behind the tapestry, in a kind of recess, is a large and well equipped refreshment counter. Across the room from this counter is a large safe, containing money and other...