Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Granting again a temporary injunction to 35 western Kentucky soft coal operators against the code authority's enforcement of its minimum wage scale, Judge Dawson ruled: "Whenever the Government unconstitutionally interferes with the right of a citizen to do business in his own way, that interference constitutes an injury to the property rights of the citizen; and that interference takes the form of exacting payment of wages in excess of what the citizen is willing to pay. To the extent of the increased wages, this citizen has been injured in his property rights. Surely, in such a situation...
...November Sunday no one gave flowers. Here was a problem. . . . It was met by bringing an armful of white pine branches from the country. In each vase of soft feathery green were inserted a few branches of brilliant autumn leaves. The effect was 'different,' and caused much favorable comment. The symbolism was rather nice...
...country churches Mrs. Sloan approves garden flowers and even such wild growths as "soft brown cattails (shellacked to preserve their deep color), grasses and such delights as the brown cottony seed pods of the fireweed, the cloudy blue bayberry, or the brilliant scarlet berries of the black alder...
April was in the air, as the Vagabond stood at the open window, sniffling hungrily at the smells of departing winter and newborn Spring. The soft breeze blew in from the Charles, itself as yet frozen over, with dirty gray ice, and he stretched himself slowly, thoroughly, like a cat that has just woken up. A slow smile of perfect bliss came over his face, and of a sudden he collapsed, purring, onto the sofa...
From the roseate mist that enveloped him came voices, soft voices, now merry, now serious. Visions danced before his eyes, and the Past, with all its glorious heartache, its reality and poiguaney dimmed by the soothing touch of Time, revolved slowly through his idling brain...