Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appearance he personifies the Southwestern statesman of a past era. Full-bodied, he has slender legs and phenomenally small feet. His face is round and soft, yet handsome. On his wavy black hair, worn longish, he pulls down an oldfashioned, broad-brimmed black felt hat. His clothes are dark and a trifle tight. Black bow ties cover his collar button. An instinctive politician, he has a ready smile, a friendly chuckle, hosts of one-name friends. He is a Knight of Pythias, Son of the American Revolution, Methodist Episcopalian (South), all in good standing. He smokes cigars, chews...
...persistency of a man who would sit all day upon a wet rock with a "rod as long and as heavy as a Tartar's lance," whatever that might be. Our fathers step out into the bright lights of Broadway from a Theatre Guild production, with a soft sigh for days when Thomas Jefferson made Rip Van Winkle stretch his cramped legs upon a New York stage. And Ichabod Crane has become a fixture in America, one might even say a plumbing fixture...
There is no use trying to get sympathy for your business worries from a soft coal man. Trouble is all he has had for the past twelve years. "To bring about the economic coordination of the coal industry," 1,000 men of science (like President Thomas Stockham Baker of Carnegie Institute of Technology) and men of industry (like Utilitarian Samuel Insull and Steelman James A. Farrell) met at Pittsburgh last week. Assembled at Carnegie Tech, the meeting was called the Third International Conference on Bituminous Coal...
...Coronation ritual proceeded Sultana Helen made her responses with a soft Scottish burr. At last, with the Lesser (female) Crown of Johore firmly planted on her Nordic head, she rode with swart Sultan Sir Ibrahim triumphantly around Johore Bahru, received the abject homage of its groveling, grinning populace...
...though deep in thought, halt now & then to fix some speaking Senator with a sharp, doubtful glance. From time to time she will address the Chair to interject some comment, acid-humorous in intent-for her husband was the Senate's conscientious sarcastigator. Then she will resume her soft pacing through the aisles, around the back, shoulders hunched, pondering profoundly, a little bitterly...