Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rather Be Right, the musical comedy in Manhattan which mildly spoofs the Administration. Mrs. Roosevelt Sr. had reserved her seat in another name, but the news leaked out backstage. Actor Cohan, who would not harm a fly unless it was a typhoid carrier, soft-pedaled a line here & there. But at other lines of his, such as "'If Eleanor would stay at home, I'd get a decent meal," Eleanor's mother-in-law heartily...
Principal spokesman for musical Zionism is fiery, bald-headed Lazare Saminsky, a Russo-Manhattanite who not only writes Israelite music, but books and articles expounding its principles and importance. Also prominent in the fold is soft-spoken Joseph Achron. whose smaller works, based on Hebrew themes, have won particular favor with solo recitalists. But foremost among all Zionist-minded composers stands crotchety Swiss-born Ernest Bloch, whose descriptive suite for piano and orchestra. Evocations, was given its first performance last week by the San Francisco Symphony under walrus-faced Pierre Monteux...
...which broke the original Guffey Coal Act in the Supreme Court. Carter Coal Co. is now out to duplicate this feat with the Guffey-Vinson Coal Act. This Act set up a seven-man national Bituminous Coal Commission in Washington, with the major purpose of creating minimum prices for soft coal. In a city where frustrated bickering is a fine art, the Bituminous Coal Commission set a new high before it finally produced its first set of minima two months ago (TIME, Dec. 27). Carter Coal at once sought an injunction against them on pea-sized coal prices...
...increasing number of sales on the installment plan seems to indicate that consumers like it. Retailers now sell almost everything on installments-not only "hard" goods, the washing machines, jewelry, and automobiles of the 1920s, but also "soft" goods, tires, clothing, perfume, goods which are consumed quickly or which have no second-hand value-so retailers evidently like it. Finance companies handle about two-thirds of all installment sales and they like it. But Mr. Merriam does not like it. The finance companies, who are the most articulate defenders of the installment system, point to their Depression record. Between...
...large soft baseball is not the only missile that could be flying among the Halls, footballs, basketballs, and squash balls could be added to the collection. These sports could be organized on an inter-Hall basis requiring very few athletic facilities that are not already allotted to Freshmen. It would be easy to have softball and tag football games at Soldiers Field; squash courts and basketball courts would not be much harder to find. In these sports, conducted with all the rivalry and informality of House games, Freshmen could stretch their legs far more pleasantly than wandering aimlessly around...