Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clerks in post offices are used to foreign-looking individuals who address packages queerly and argue over the amounts necessary for postage and insurance. What made Clerk Edward Werkheiser, 28, suspicious of two Italianate men in dark overcoats and soft hats who came into the Easton. Pa. post office one morning last week was the shape and weight of the six packages they shoved through the window. The packages seemed identical. Each was about 10 in. long, 5 in. wide, 5 in. deep. Each weighed 6 Ib. Yet the senders, in arguing about the packages' value, insisted each contained something...
...respects. The magnificently, minutely true characterization which Helen Hayes gives to Leora is one of the events of the year. Good shots: rats, outlined in fire, leaving a burning brush village; Leora's reply to Arrowsmith's proffer of marriage: "Have you got a nickel? I want soft music...
...tied her $25,000,000 property up in trust for ten years. A King daughter is Mrs. Alice Gertrudis Kleberg, mother of the new Congressman. After her is named Santa Gertrudis, the great ranch house at Kingsville where visitors are royally entertained, where meals are served at a soft, table by Mexican servants, where a feudal atmosphere still prevails. "Dick" Kleberg once tried ranching but gave it up to move to Corpus Christi, go into the cattle business, play good golf. Today the King Ranch, with its 100,000 head of livestock, its miles of plains and gardens...
...year ago even Frenchmen were asking, "Who is this Laval?" Last week the Premier pushed completely out of the Chamber picture Old Brer Briand, his veteran Foreign Minister whose support was necessary to prop up the young Laval Cabinet last spring. In effect, M.Laval reversed (perhaps rashly) the soft-spoken policy toward Germany of his own Foreign Office. When M. Briand last addressed the Chamber applause rose from the Left and Left Centre. When M. Laval spoke last week, the Centre and Right vociferously cheered his words: "We will accept no new Reparations arrangement except for the period...
...opening day reporters, greeting each other with soft cries of "Ugh! Ugh!" and "How!", tiptoed among celebrities to look at painted jars, baskets, totem poles, Navajo rugs, blankets, silver bracelets, earrings, belt buckles, turquoise necklaces, beaded quivers. Art critics were most interested in two small galleries where hung water color sketches showing ceremonial dances and hunting scenes by living Indian painters. All were in the native tradition, with brilliant color, splendid sense of design, for the most part excellently drawn. Among the best painters: Fred Kabotie, a smiling Hopi, and straight-nosed Ma Pe Wi, from the Rio Grande...