Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pictorial design. He is a typical German in the emotional intensity displayed in his work. The superb colour of the artist and his delicate touch are, perhaps, the most striking elements in his work. Using a special hand made Japanese paper for his water colours, he produces a soft delicate quality that is perfectly consistent with the subtle tone relations that are far more important to the eye than the subjects portrayed are to the mind. Colour is handled with perfect taste and design is thoroughly personal. Unlike so many of the moderns who imitate the great French masters...
...Hamilton and Whiteside had to cast their votes by long distance telephone.) Last spring Mr. Williams retired as president of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels) to become an industrial member of the National Labor Board and, later, head of the Advisory & Planning Council. A big man with a soft North Carolina drawl and the best business manners in his State, Mr. Williams took his law degree at the University of Virginia in 1908. Like 50 others, he has been made a millionaire by the Reynolds Co. Not a great tobacco buyer or seller, he is known as a great...
...Despite soft shushing, the first of the R's, so characteristic of the Roosevelt Regime: Recrimination, Resignation and Reorganization, are registering in the Securities Commission. The scavenger instincts of Protector of the Public Pecora scenting a tainted situation in the matter of B.M.T. bonds, have caused that noted headline hound to break forth into full cry, to the consternation of the youthful counsel for the Commission, who, it is said, Burns Pecora up. Any inquisition at this stage will prove a killing frost to the budding confidence of security holders...
...comely hostess, soft lights, and sweet music, and a cuisine superior to any in the Square will tempt after-the-game diners. A complete line of liquors served by a bartender well versed in the art will please the most fastidious imbibers...
...stimulating atmosphere of free discussion." Such beliefs, held by the officials of the University, have not only made the publication of the Confidential Guide pamphlet possible but have also made such expressions of opinion the normal course of events at Harvard. Yet the Alumni Bulletin, which portrays Harvard in soft tones to its graduates, criticizes this right when we apply it directly to the courses listed in the catalogue...