Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vital, active, with iron-grey, curly, bobbed hair, Mrs. Hitchcock wears riding boots and breeches through most summer days. At 65 she still talks in the soft New Orleans drawl of her girlhood. She and her husband and son are thorough refutations of the tradition that polo, game of the rich, is controlled by snobs. The Hitchcock influence is largely responsible for the new feeling that real polo talent from anywhere in the land is welcome on Long Island to help defend the Cup. At least one Californian seems sure to be on the team this year, for the first...
Last week Wolf Lamar, heavy, well-dressed, soft-voiced, continued to fulfill the common conception of his type. Cool, bland, he appeared unimpressed by charges that he had been conducting a brokerage business under the name of Murdock & Co., had failed to deliver 2,500 shares of Fox Film, could not account for the proceeds from 1,000 Grigsby-Grunow. His attitude coincided with that of his attorney who said: "The charges are a thousand miles from grand larceny." Reticent about himself, Wolf Lamar continued uttering such ultimatums as: "It is a bull market today and bear operators will...
...Last year Russia sold $30,749,044 worth of goods to the U.S. Chief items: furs ($8,299,215), manganese ($6,050,839), platinum ($3,612,464), sausage casings ($2,675,595). Hard and soft Soviet lumber totalled 38 million feet, compared with U. S. production of 33 billion feet; 113,000 tons of Soviet Anthracite against U. S. production of 75,000,000 tons. In an export trade of $107,651,000 to Russia, the U. S. shipped $29,000,000 worth of cotton, $20,000,000 worth of farm machinery. Last week International Harvester increased its Milwaukee plant...
...held and the round head of the baby in Mrs. Bamberger's lap. They explained : Mrs. Watkins' baby was her first, Mrs. Bamberger's her third. First babies usually have warped heads because they must force their way through the bony unused birth canal. In a few weeks the soft head of a first baby assumes its hereditary shape...
...burst in the ruined nave. Said his comrade: "It's not that I'm afraid, you understand, but I hate loud noises." On his return to Paris, Hero 'T' became successively clerk, bicyclist, male nurse; was often in trouble, sometimes in the guardhouse, oftener in the infirmary or some soft job. Says Author Deval: "A soldier may be as ignorant as he likes as to whether his heart is located on the left or the right . . . but what he must do. what is indispensable for him, is to know one disease?just one. But that one he must know...