Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...titular head of Germany's reactionary "Cabinet of Monocles"- is not nearly so domineering as expected, in fact is not domineering at all. London newspapers which recently scare-headed EX-SPY BECOMES GERMAN CHANCELLOR could not deny last week that Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen speaks with a soft intonation, sits for minutes at a time pensively fondling the top of his cane and appears to the casual eye incapable of plotting in 1915 to blow up Canada's Weiland Canal...
...life at Oxford. The Prince is a staunch Oxonian. . . ." Tex Rickard and many another pro moter invited Eddie Eagan to turn pro fessional. Unlike most good amateur fighters, Eddie Eagan did not do it. but he trained with famed prizefighters like Mike McTigue, Gene Tunney. Cat-footed, slow and soft of speech, gentle as a St. Bernard, he is recognized and received in social and sporting circles almost as though he had been the Champion...
...Hoover, 41 years White House usher (whose "consideration of others is unfailing"). Other nominees: Novelist Benjamin Kittredge; Artist Olin Dows soft-drawling Lawyer Frank Lyon Polk, Wilsonian Undersecretary of State; Lawyer George Woodward Wickersham; Justice Harlan Fiske Stone; Actor George Arliss...
TIME pencils, fat, soft, red and labeled, are Eberhard Faber products, 7 in. long, .418 in. diameter, .165 lead. At least two other companies make the same type (Joseph Dixon Crucible Co. claims to have originated it). They are used mostly in grade schools and newspaper offices, bear trade names like "Elementary," "Childlend," "Beginners." To any subscriber in good standing who so requests, one good TIME pencil will be sent gratis...
...Approve, with slightly different rates, the House excise taxes on cosmetics, jewelry, sporting goods, cameras, firearms, mechanical refrigerators, matches, candy, soft drinks, motorboats, yachts...