Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...host ? wearing what? Seen from a distance the short, square-headed, black-mustached Soviet Premier looked as though he were in a tuxedo. Actually he was in the blackest business suit he could find, his black tie fixed securely in place by pins in the tabs of his soft collar. Only ladies of the diplomatic corps were in low-cut evening gowns, only they wore jewels. Hostess Molotov, after careful thought, had done up her light brown hair in a knot at the back of her head, wore a black gown with full-length sleeves and a narrow white...
...crowd that watched the opening matches of 1932 Davis Cup play at Washington last week was not really very much concerned about who would win. Everyone knew that the U. S. players-Ellsworth Vines, John Van Ryn, Wilmer Allison, Frank Shields-were too strong for soft-stroking Marcel Rainville and old Dr. Jack Wright, Canada's two best singles players. The real question was: had Vines reached anything like the form that won him the U. S. championship last year...
...onetime South Dakota well-digger, last week organized a sub-committee of five. Besides himself, Senator Norbeck appointed Republicans Couzens and Townsend, Democrats Fletcher and Glass. Conspicuously omitted was President Hoover's good friend Senator Walcott of Connecticut, who started the bear hunt. Washington thought he had tried to soft-pedal the inquiry after trapping more Republicans than Democrats in bear's clothing. Four special investigators and an accounting firm were to be hired. Representative La Guardia's explosive testimony was the subcommittee's first move to broaden the hunt to include all stockmarket denizens, all equally vicious...
...tube, the Doctor's human isolation is broken down by the alchemical tricks of his more or less than human friends. The white rat, the tip of whose brain has been removed, can still show his master how gallant, how thoughtful a lover he can be to the soft white beauty who builds a nest of newspapers in the desk. Vicious, the little green parrot, loves to lie under the Doctor's coat when he goes to the symphony; warm and still, she chews his tie, his shirt. Only once, frightened at something, did she begin to talk...
...SOFT ANSWERS-Richard Aldington- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Buried under the inexhaustible manna of contemporary material, satirists appear but rarely in literature today. One of these rare literary birds, as proved in his Death of a Hero and The Colonel's Daughter, is Author Aldington. Though he served in the War, he has never disavowed conscientious objections to large parts of the human race...