Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition the 1932 excise taxes on automobiles, radios, mechanical refrigerators, jewelry, furs, cosmetics, soft drinks, etc. etc. were extended for an additional year to July i, 1935. Total tax: $700,000,000. The capital gains & losses back-door was unnoticed until the Morgan story broke...
Radicals and Radical-Socialists have an unofficial uniform in France: a soft black felt hat. The type of hat is left to the fancy of the wearer. M. Herriot wears a rather dumpy velour. Until he became Premier in January Edouard Daladier wore a romantic fedora. His first move in office was to antiquate newspaper files throughout the world by shaving his mustache and buying a new hat: a stiff, eminently correct black Homburg...
Here were soft words for U. S. consumption. Reporters in China were faced by a much harder array of facts...
...played lustily on drum, cymbal, triangle and xylophone, while a teacher accompanied on the piano. The primary pupils furnished a 30-piece orchestra. High school students strutted in the costumes of the past 50 years. Parents looked over exhibits of school work. None was happier than the stout, genial. soft-spoken old Quaker for whom the celebration was held-Thomas Watson Sidwell who founded Friends' School, taught there until ten years ago, is still its principal...
...been adequately explored. It has been commonly objected that such positions would result in inefficiency and in a fostering of class consciousness. Neither objection can be valid in the face of an emergency condition; the second is rather more respectable than the first, but it should not be too soft to expect that good breeding would rise soberly to the occasion. But even if such an introduction might increase the means of assistance at the college's disposal, the duty to meet the problem of admissions with a cautious realism need not be obscured...