Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unlike such soft drinks as ginger ale and mineral waters, grape juice does not combine with alcoholic liquors...
...McPherson Square. A visitor walking into the Attorney General's corner office on the sixth floor of the Department of Justice Building would see seated behind a large flat-top desk a lithe, slender man with a well-shaped forehead, soft brownish hair, touched with grey at the sides, deep brown eyes of an almost feminine softness. Behind him, wide windows open on McPherson Square. A serene calm fills the office. A stranger would be surprised to learn that this man before him is 55, for he does not look over 40. There is a youthful slightness about...
Another, earlier touch of levity was the insistence by Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson that the U. S. delegation should land from their steamer in top hats, though two of them had started down the gangplank in soft headgear. "I feel rather like a Pilgrim father coming back to England," said Statesman Stimson, adding when correspondents did not seem to get his point, "My wife had two ancestors on the Mayflower." Another Stimson mot: "I have brought along my golf clubs, but I am no Bobby Jones." He laughed noncommittally when a British correspondent asked, "May we say that...
Editor Marcus A. Rose of The Business Week: "Business will be good in 1930 for the lean, hard firms. It will not be good for the fat, soft outfits...
...German hospital overlooking the Rhine was one ward known as the Whistlers' Room. Here were four men who had been shot through the throat; each had a silver tube set ingeniously into his neck to serve as a windpipe. "When they breathed quickly or laughed, a soft piping note, like the squeaking of mice, came from the silver mouth. Hence they were called the neck whistlers, or simply the whistlers...