Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large, luminous and enlightened mind," contributed nothing startlingly original to the Court debate. The substance of his plan had already been put forward by, among others, Nebraska's Edward R. Burke, one of the leaders of the Senate opposition. Difference was that the tactful, soft-spoken Dean made his ideas seem simple, plausible, attractive...
...years the constitution of Kansas has forbidden the sale of intoxicating beverages. Since Federal Repeal, however, Kansas has had no law defining what constitutes an intoxicating beverage. For three years juries have with a few exceptions held that alcoholic beer and ale, widely sold in Kansas, were in fact soft drinks. For three years outraged Drys have loudly demanded a law to make their prohibition constitution work. Last week a prohibition law was finally put upon the statute books of Kansas...
Specifically they are desirous that there be a paid secretary appointed by the H.A.A. to organize intra-mural sports for the Law School dormitories. It is expected that touch football teams and soft ball baseball teams will be organized among the Law School Halls, and among those outside the Halls...
...eyed Alfred, Lord Tennyson, taken in 1868 by one of the first and most ardent of amateurs, Mrs. Julia Margaret Cameron. Mrs. Cameron was the first to use deliberate distortion of focus to get a soft, painting-like quality in her prints...
Physicians stuck pins into Helen Love and slapped her face without getting response. A practical prosecutor suggested dousing her with cold water, but the doctors forbade that on the ground that the shock might kill her. Helen Love's brother helpfully recalled that soft, classical music had once brought her out of a similar fit. But none was available in the Los Angeles jail. Then a dapper psychiatrist named Dr. Samuel Morris Marcus took a hand. He rubbed the woman's eyelids, tickled her behind the ears. That caused her to twitch, to murmur: "Don't, Harry...