Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week that U. S. retail sales for July were 16% below 1937, they added an explanation: "excessive heat replacing heavy rainfall as a deterrent to shoppers." Ice cream consumption in seven days was 500,000 gal. above normal. No adequate figures were available on the consumption of gasoline, soft drinks, railroad tickets and many another commodity, but it was evident that extraordinary weather had made substantial losses and profits for businessmen. And last week for the second in succession, most of the U. S. east of the Rockies lay sweltering under a heat & humidity wave...
...income from this Imperial Trust. But the Earl has been in no hurry. On the day he ceased to be Prime Minister, he discarded formal morning suit, heavy gold watch chain, and stiff wing collar of Statesmanship, and retired into natty brown and grey suits with colored shirts and soft collars to match. Last week a local horticultural show was staged on the grounds of the Baldwin estate, and neighbors gathered, wondering if the Earl in his address would at last announce his Empire tour...
...peaked face alight with the puckish smile, the same captivating gift coming, it seemed sure, from the Little Folk of the very land he startled." Said Edwin C. Hill of the Journal and American: "The Corrigan, as cocky a bantam as ever was, opened his eyes in a big, soft bed at the Hotel McAlpin today, and looked out upon a Broadway which had become for the likes of him a street of dreams. And he said to me, The Corrigan...
...Modest, soft-spoken Dr. Brockway, son of a California rancher, refuses all requests to make short men tall by stretching both legs, says that he will not perform a serious operation on mere grounds of personal vanity...
...Florida student named Douglas Leigh bought all the advertising space in the college yearbook for $2,000, promptly resold the space for $7,000. In 1930, when he was down to the last $9 of this fat profit, he arrived in Manhattan to hunt a job. Though modest, soft-spoken Douglas Leigh hoped to work for Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn. he was unsuccessful, instead landed a job with General Outdoor Advertising Co., Inc., for which in three years' time he became a top-notch salesman. But dis gruntled by a long string of Depression salary cuts, he quit...