Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...troupe she was a benevolent martinet. She bossed them sternly in their dance regimen, nursed them through their personal woes. Before every performance, despite her assurance of success and applause, she was nervous, tense. In public she affected simple, obscuring clothes. In the privacy of her home she liked soft, comfortable things...
...Natural History, he has studied birds in South America. As president of the Connecticut State Board of Fisheries & Game and of a joint commission on Forests & Wild Life, he helped develop his own State's efficient conservation policy. In a report to a conservation group he once wrote: "Soft living is conducive to soft bodies and dull minds. . . . There is one effective cure for this tendency to Idleness-back to the country, breathe fresh air, drink pure water...
...Republican politicians urged another for the appointment. Last week the deadlock was broken when the Hoover candidate withdrew and the President, with the goodwill of all sides, appointed a third man as U. S. District Attorney. He was plump, pink, bald, middle-aged George Zerden Medalie, who has a soft, husky voice and gentle brown eyes. Behind District Attorney Medalie's mild exterior, however, was a long and excellent record as a special prosecutor who knew how to send criminals to jail. But what the Senate wanted to know before it confirmed him, what the new appointee had skilfully...
Pascin painted voluptuous harlots reclining on couches, abused, half starved little girls, strange indecent flowers, with great mastery of line, but in soft, sad indefinite tones...
About pascin personally there was very little exquisite or distinguished. He was a soft, pale man, sensual and abnormally sensitive, who abhorred fresh air, never rose till the afternoon, occasionally shaved about 7 o'clock. He was a dipsomaniac. His virtues were his amiability, his lack of personal vanity. He made and kept innumerable friends: at his studio 30 to 40 friends gathered daily to chat while he painted; often he would gather a group of 20, men, women and children, and take them with him to some watering place for weeks at a time...