Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since 1935. Communists on Stalin's orders have soft-pedaled the policy known as "The World Revolution Of The World Proletariat," have loud-pedaled the policy known as "The Popular Front." Last week in Moscow, highest Soviet dignitaries and cheering mobs used the Red Square as a gigantic sounding board to loud-pedal World Revolution. Occasion was the 21st anniversary of The Bolshevik Revolution...
Even before 1935, when he began to soft-pedal World Revolution, J. Stalin was stingy about dispensing "Moscow gold" in the U. S. and Britain. Since 1935 many Reds have found him a Shylock...
...Hubbard still has a soft spot for his old alma mammy. After discussing subsidization of players, he writes, "Some colleges are very sensitive on this point--Harvard for instance. They have a rule that no coach is allowed to speak at any preparatory school. They scrutinize every aplication for admission...
...voice was soft and gentle, but his soul was on fire. He, the true philosopher, was defending death--death that plucked out the nails of earthly pleasure and pain which had riveted the soul to the body and had prevented man from seeing absolute beauty, absolute wisdom, and absolute truth. He spoke of many proofs of immortality, but his hearers needed only one: the man himself. Socrates as he was dying was never more intensely, more crucially alive. He was not losing Life, he was gaining it, even though in a few minutes...
Autry's revolutionary contribution to westerns was a soft, sleepy-sounding baritone voice. A onetime telegrapher for the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway, who had used his ample spare time in learning to sing and strum the guitar, Autry had later become a crooner of plains ballads for smalltime radio stations. When Republic decided to try to save westerns with the experiment of a singing cowboy, he was selected for the spot and succeeded instantly...