Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after his afternoon performance at the RKO-Boston on Saturday, but down in the dressing room five of his boys were playing something soft and sweet on their saxophones. Fats grinned with pride and said that this was one of his latest compositions, "Jealous of Me." In a corner, writing on a dressing table, sat Dick Donaldson, arranger for the Waller orchestrations, writing notes by the dozens...
...Freshman Inter-Hall League will be new this fall. Last year a Freshman committee recommended that inter-hall competition be organized in touch football in the fall, basketball in the winter, and soft ball in the spring. These activities will be conducted on a voluntary basis and apart from the physical training program. The dormitories in the Yard will be represented in this Freshman league. In the case of some of the larger halls it may be necessary to divide the players into two or three teams. Some games will be arranged with the different House teams...
...years ago. Of her subjects she says: "I understand flowers better than anything else. To me they are human-as human as people.'' Also much to her liking as subjects are the lovely bowls, beautiful pieces of glassware, the exquisite Ming pottery which she collects. From soft sofas she toys with romantic notions of Greenwich Village inspiration, clinging to the belief that art is born in discontent. "It seems to me," Artist Lasky has been quoted, ''that I could paint better, write better poetry, if I had to struggle to do it." To which Hollywood Producer...
...hands agreed that the latter camp was the more enjoyable, placed as it was beside a cold mountain brook that had been dammed to make a swimming hole and, incidentally, a ducking pond for people who knocked more than a fair share of home runs in the inter-section soft ball league...
...added when Tony gave Mabel Dodge a dose of the Mexican drug peyote as a cure for dysentery. Awake all night, a clairvoyant vision showed her that "all this learning in the brain, and never in the blood was ended." In this mood even Maurice provoked "a tender, soft, sorry feeling"-though she did not relax her determination to kick him out. To make his going easier (for herself), she and Tony absented themselves at a Corn Dance. On their return Tony said, "I comin' here to this tepee tonight, when darkness here. That be right...