Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...booked 1,000 subscribers, among them J. P. Morgan. Newsstand sales went to 9,000 a week. Backer of the Observer was one John Bruce Heath. His respectable and even eminent staff* understood John Bruce Heath was a ; big capitalist from Canada. Actually this compelling little personage with a soft voice and wonderfully persuasive eyes was not John Bruce Heath at all but John Neville. He had been jailed for fraud in Illinois, was wanted by the police of Boston, where he had mulcted various people of some $100,000 to start his financial sheet. Like Boston's Charles...
...regard to the costume to be worn under the gown, the Committees stated that a dark suit, black low shoes, a soft white shirt, and a not too flamboyant necktie are proper attire...
...seems that at the first show of a new picture he occupies this exclusive seat. Should Gable articulate too loud, he buzzes once; should Harlow's whispers be too soft, he buzzes twice. On the pad a complete record is kept on the nature of the scene, on the intensity of sound. Next performance, the projection man follows instructions on a typewritten sheet...
...1870s, a Cassandra appeared on this happy scene in the person of Jay Gould, who dickered with Jefferson's soft-spoken businessmen about the possibility of putting through a branch of his Texas & Pacific Railroad to connect the city overland northeast with Texarkana and the T. & P. main line. Annoyed when the Jeffersonians would not talk his kind of turkey, the black-whiskered railroad baron clapped on his plug hat and walked out croaking a curse on the whole pack of them: "Bats will roost in your belfries, trees thrust branches through mouldering buildings, grass grow in your streets...
Bonds had been soft all week before the deluge of selling orders hit the Government bond section of the New York Stock Exchange. Most of the business in Government bonds is normally done over-the-counter by big dealers, and $10,000,000 worth of trading in Governments on the Stock Exchange is considered a boom day. Last week in what was a grey if not a black Friday the Exchange volume mounted to $23,450,000, biggest day in 16 years...