Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supporters-Father Coughlin, Robert Harriss (cotton broker), George LeBlanc (ex-banker). James H. Rand Jr. (Committee for the Nation)-to ballyhoo their demands. In the House, Representative Andrew Somers announced that the Coinage, Weights & Measures Committee would hear the opinions of all the most vociferous money theorists-hard, soft, and elastic-Dr. O. M. W. Sprague, Frank Vanderlip. Father Coughlin, Professor Irving Fisher, Banker James P. Warburg, etc. etc. Before their voices could distract the country, the President acted. He sum moned all the members of the Senate and House Banking and Currency Committees ta a White House monetary soiree...
...childless wife, whom he married when he was 46, has not been able to break him of-his feet bother him. An earthy humorist, he likes to tell stories on his feet. Once he leaned out of his car in Manhattan and startled a policeman by enquiring in a soft drawl: "Officer, what kind of shoes do you wear? I have lots of trouble with my feet and just won dered how you manage to stand on yours all day long." The scene of the best Jones foot story is laid in Buckingham Palace. Colonel Edward Mandell House of Austin...
...contest was not on the regular schedule, and was played on soft ice. The Jayvees were slated to cross sticks with Belmont Hill School last Saturday at Belmont, while the Freshmen were due to play Milton, but both games were called off on account of lack...
...Zoological Society, an African big-game hunter, breathlessly announced that he had found a strange, fresh footprint on Loch Ness's banks. Cried he: "It is a four-fingered beast and has feet, or pads, about eight inches across. I should judge it to be a very powerful soft-footed animal about 20 ft. long...
...that this is the drink of rugged individualism. There is something of the mountains of its birth in this Leadville Moon; those mountains are heavy, yet aspiring; they fall away in rugged, breath-taking scarps, and pyramid to jagged causeways of rock far above the clouds, descending again over soft alpine meadows and pastoral beauties; all this and more is to be found in Leadville Moon. It does not act like other drinks; it bowls one over, then replants; it is in no sense a cheap, shoddy imitation; it is a true invention, a step on the road of Progress...