Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...used a spray of glycerine, lime, marble dust and water. But no matter how little glycerine they used it would appear later in small beads on the surface of the plaster. Then they tried butyl alcohol (butanol) with the same ingredients. This worked, but made the plaster surface too soft to work on. The final formula was the simplest: equal parts of butanol and water. Muralist Rivera, pleased as Punch, confirmed their claim that spraying walls with this preparation every three or four hours enables a painter to work twice as long on one section or to apply plaster...
...following: I have worked with Herman Diederichs 20 years. Half the time I would have died for him and the other half I wanted to kill him. He did a thousand kindly acts in my behalf and never gave me a kind word anytime. He was a big soft-hearted Dutch sentimentalist who studied to be gruff so people wouldn't find him out. I'm still mad at him and this telegraph blank is wet with tears because he won't bawl me out any more...
...placed his benediction on bush-browed Edward Smigly-Rydz, Inspector General of the Army, gave him to the nation as his successor. Lacking the personal magnetism of the Old Marshal, the landscape-painting Marshal makes a poor Dictator. Using Pilsudski's coffin as his chief stock-in-trade, soft-spoken Smigly-Rydz has appealed in vain for all factions to heed the Old Marshal's wish for a unified Poland...
...knew him were pleased that the judges had awarded the $1,000 to one who would not write skin-deep music for anyone's money. Son of a poor Russian violinist who brought him to Manhattan's East Side as a baby, Composer Gruenberg, 54. is dreamy, soft-voiced, soft-eyed. He studied piano under Ferruccio Busoni, became dissatisfied even though his teacher said he had "God-graced hands." Gruenberg's early, romantic Hill of Dreams won a $1,000 prize given by Harry Harkness Flagler for the New York Symphony. He turned to syncopated dissonances...
...from San Francisco, a small, freckled, poker-faced, soft-spoken Tennessean named William Walker, 29 years old, sailed with 45 assorted killers, down-and-outers and adventurers to capture Lower California as the first step in privately annexing Mexico and Central...