Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Messrs. Mills and Castle would go to hear transatlantic reports from Secretary Mellon, chief U. S. negotiator in Paris. Mr. Mellon usually called around noon and again at dinnertime. Sometimes the connection was so poor that the President and his aides could not hear the soft-speaking Secretary. It was also found that the President's voice did not carry well to Paris so a telephone girl was brought in to do his talking for him. Once the President asked the 76-year-old Secretary if he were exhausted by his strenuous diplomatic activities. Replied Mr. Mellon...
...unpopular among some of their Flemish subjects. Proof: Crown Prince Leopold and Queen Elisabeth have been hissed and booed within the past year at Antwerp, Malines, Louvain. The obvious remedy seemed to lie in a discreet, informal holiday to be taken by Her Majesty among the wandering canals and soft green meadows of reposeful Flanders...
...beyond the Ohio River in Ohio. If you drive fast, your car will take you across that country in five hours. It is "The Pittsburgh Area." the richest bituminous deposit in the world, whence comes one-fifth (some 100,000,000 tons a year) of the nation's soft coal. Now take a red crayon and dot the Pittsburgh Area, for in many of its countless, wretched little mining communities during the past month -and particularly last week-blood flowed...
...Smith of the Coast Guard, who expects to be on the Graf Zeppelin's proposed flight this summer, last week thought he knew. Bergs drift south from the Arctic toward Labrador and Newfoundland. Normally an "ice fence" exists along those coasts, against which the bergs strike. The soft collision sends the bergs caroming eastward into the shipping lanes. This year, he believes and hopes to find, the "ice fence" has failed to form. Consequently the southing bergs must have piled up on the Newfoundland and Labrador coasts, as though Jack Frost and King Neptune, bored with spring gambling...
...Folia's Nights in the Gardens of Spain by Conductor Ernesto Halffter, Pianist Manuel Navarro and the Orquesta Betica de Camara (Columbia, $4.50)?A Sevillian orchestra, led by a pupil of Composer de Falla, gives soft, authentic color to the three lovely nocturnes...