Word: soft
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...horse shows promise, thus piling up the world's richest purse-last week $108,450. Out of 2,026 original entries for this year, only eleven horses finally started. Climax of Long Island's smart racing season, this year's Futurity was run on a soft track before 20,000 people. Odds on favorite was William R. Coe's Ladysman, leading 2-year-old money winner ($101,135). Because he is known as a good mudder, odds on Ladysman increased rather than declined when it rained all the day before the race...
...straggling Freshmen vainly trying to register an hour too late, sped his way to the late lamented Union. He gorged himself well on the fare intended only for the newcomers, carefully avoiding the recognizing eye of his friend, the Adviser in religion. Then he settled himself comfortably in a soft spot to enjoy the fumes of Benson and Hedges, lulled into absent dreams by the pleasant voices of the speakers...
...Hopi Indians are immune or have an antidote which can be successfully used after the dance, as rattlesnake venom works swiftly into the circulatory system, especially when the blood is circulating faster through exercise. I am led to believe the Hopi either goads the snakes into biting a soft substance such as a ball of cotton or soft cloth or "milks'" the snakes immediately before the dance. The "milking'' process is done by holding the rattler behind the head and having it strike into a fabric or parchment tightly drawn across the mouth...
...fingers, might have been much better handled. Ward Morehouse, who wrote it, is a theatrical reporter who knows more about how theatrical people talk than he does about writing plays. His picture is really a "color story" rather than the melodrama which it sometimes attempts to be or the soft satiric comedy which it could have been. The slight romance between Linden and a kind-hearted chorus girl (Joan Blondell); his associa tion with a gay and amazingly unresourceful confidence man (Walter Catlett): the bravado of his return to Willow Creek are incidents which a more astute playwright might have...
...band out . . . we dance, keep moving and make every one of our varsity players work on one of our six practice boards. . . . There is a circle about one foot round they have to serve in. . . . My players must never grandstand a play, never make the kill when a soft accurate shot will suffice. Energy must be saved. No false steps, no excess movements. No jerks, no wild swinging and no brute strength. Just the cool calculating mind working the system, analytical, severe, fast, cruel and deadly...