Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mind. The New York League of Composers gave a concert and a reception which half the musical somebodies in town attended. Most of them looked bored or completely baffled but they listened politely to two string quartets, a group of songs, three piano pieces. Schönberg made a soft, frightened little speech. He was charmed . . . everyone was so kind...
...itself in Russia. The original Bolsheviks placed the furtherance of the world revolution above all else; this has now been superseded y a realistic foreign policy assiduous in advancing the interests of Russia. While a great deal of verbal balderdash about the international proletariat still goes on, it is soft-pedalled and nationalism is encouraged...
...Cheap Dollars" were what "bothered'' soft-spoken President Green in his key-note speech. "Labor knows that this is a problem that affects us very vitally because we know that when dollars are cheapened commodity prices rise, but wages stand still. Until [the Government] can assure Labor that we will get more of these cheap dollars for the day's work we perform, so that it will conform to the increase of commodity prices, it is my judgment that Labor will stand unflinchingly against Inflation...
Looking for the new president was a harder job than the six camera men of the Metropolitan press had bargained for. Aided and abetted by some of Colonel Apted's stout lieutenants, and disguised in a soft felt hat and a grey overcoat, President Conant slipped away in the twilight, unknown, unobserved, unphotoed. Where a President's son has failed, a full-fledged President has succeeded. That evens the score hereabouts...
...forth, back an' forth, jest enough to let you know they're there. This is the fall o' the year, with the air so dang full o' haze that it looks like a lot o' spiders has been stringin' their webs around. Warm soft air, an' still it's got a bite in it, too. The days is gittin' late. Purty soon it'll be time to git out the old houn'-dog an' start out after coons, some o' these frosty nights, or maybe...