Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asked Mrs. Naidu whether she would like to be sent back to her encampment in a comfortable limousine. India's matronly Joan of Arc was said to have voluntarily accepted, and, leaving her followers to trudge after the limousine, left the field of "Death or Victory" in pusillanimous, soft cushioned ease...
Berlioz's Roman Carnival Overture and Stravinsky's Fire Bird Interlude by Gabriel Pierne and the Colonne Orchestra of Paris (Columbia, 2 records, $2 each) - A fittingly flamboyant reading of Berlioz's noisy festival music; the second is contrastingly soft and mysterious in color...
...travel book is very apt to cause us to pause and wonder if, after all, the best things in life are indigenous only to the land of electric ice-boxes and the "New Humanism". It is not just that "America's England" is splashed with the bright colors and soft hues of a distant land that makes it appealing reading. Between the lines there is something more, very politely suggested, something that points to a difference in civilizations and a difference in living one's life...
...side streets and along the main road clear to the Essex Depot. Workmen knocked out the blocks and a two-masted fishing schooner skimmed down the ways and across the Essex River. They had put on no snubbing line so the craft bedded into the soft earth of the opposite bank. Paid for by Mr. and Mrs. Thebaud, their son-in-law Robert McCurdy. and Basset Jones - all "summer people"; built by Capt. Arthur D. Story; designed to outsail any fishing boat afloat, the Gertrude L. Thebaud will go to the Grand Banks for a summer of fishing to season...
...rails) 157.28 and (utilities) 106.13. Notable was the fact that the first stocks to start recovering included most of the utilities (which had suffered severely in the crash). Union Carbide, American Tel. & Tel., Steel, American Can, General Electric continued as leaders. Stocks which started the year off poorly remained soft. Selling of Montgomery Ward on lower earnings, Gillette on beclouded patent situations, Simmons on a truer understanding of its sales figures, Industrial Alcohol on lower prices, sent these issues to new lows...