Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Martyrs prosper in Irish air. Suddenly the cries were "Up O'Duffy!" "Down with the Broy Harriers!", the latter a play on the name of Dublin Police Chief Broy and a famed Irish pack of fast but craven rabbit hounds. De Valera men countered with tales of the soft life O'Duffy would lead in the Arbour Hill Prison outside Dublin. The Arbour Hill Prison under Minister of Defence Frank Aiken has won the name of "Aiken's Grand Hotel." The General resided in the "Grand barely 48 hours. His lawyers apparently agreed with the State...
Seven days after birth the babe will receive a name, painted by Emperor Hirohito on a sheet of soft white paper, carried with pomp by an Imperial Messenger into the infant's presence. Same day Japan's Crown Prince will get his first bath, a rite of such antiquity that all its meanings are no longer known. While the babe is washed attendants will twang on bow strings as sages seated behind a screen read in loud and awful tones eloquent passages from ancient books...
...York Sun reporter. The silver radiator cap, big as a baby's head, was a replica of Ben Hur's chariot. Silver trimmings on the fenders and silver door handles led Newshawk Edmund De Long to peep into the car's interior. Upholstery was of soft green Morocco leather. "On the inside of the doors." De Long wrote in the Sun, "and across the partition separating the chauffeur's compartment is a gold and silver panoramic view of old Egypt with Egyptian dancing girls thinly veiled, going through rhythmic motions." The carpet was oriental, the interior...
...tall, strapping young man in double-breasted suit and soft grey shirt strode from one Department of Commerce conference room to another last week like a chess champion playing five games at once. Secretaries waylaid him. Callers with briefcases plucked at his sleeve. At sight of a new caller the young man's wide mouth widened into a grin. The visitor was also tall, bronzed, handsome. From under his snap-brim hat he regarded his host quizzically as he asked: "How goes it, Gene...
...Prohibition is the worst curse that was ever inflicted upon this country," continued this experienced mixer of drinks. "It had a degrading effect upon everyone. Take my case, for example; I was forced during the plague of prohibition to content myself with the mixing of soft drinks and the dishing out of ice cream. But I haven't forgotten how to mix a single drink, not a one. Off hand, I should say that the Martini and Bronx cocktail are about the most popular drinks thus far, but the majority of the drinking public, on the whole, are sampling...