Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should wake up tomorrow morning and through the course of the day find your home-loving mother being courted by a roue, your august father succumbing to the soft inpeachments of an ogling actress, your elder sister flinging herself at a married artist, and your younger brother making love to a woman who enters and exits over the garden wall, you doubtless would retire to bed in the evening, very willing to "call it a day." Dodie Smith has conceived of just such a situation and she has fittingly dubbed her play "Call It A Day." After the delightful performance...
Sloe-eyed, soft-spoken Generalissimo Francisco Franco of the White Armies, realizing the difficulty of moving on Madrid through the Guadarrama Mountains of the North, transferred his headquarters within easier distance of the main line from Toledo to Madrid. Government troops, disorganized and poorly led, made brave counter-attacks that got nowhere, abandoned well-constructed trenches for villages impossible to hold, were shot down in their tracks while retreating, and occasionally deserted in groups...
...with a big trailer stood parked on a peaceful hillside near the town of Washington in southern Indiana. Below, at the bottom of a dark slope, the waters of a small lake shimmered faintly. The hour was nearly midnight and the car itself was dark and empty, but a soft light glowed from the windows of the trailer where a honeymooning couple were preparing...
...with you, Dod,' the men declared, 'even if you sail her into hell!' . . . If I live to be 100 I'll never hear sweeter music than the chuckle of the sea past the Girl Pat's bows, the soft whistle of the wind in her rigging, and the slap-slap of the waves against her creaking timbers as she dug her blunt nose into deep water. ... At Tenerite ... an elderly native came sidling up to me. ... He started to praise his daughter and-well, although to me she was only some sort of a dark...
...needed only four more games to add the U. S. title to the English one she won at Wimbledon this year. She could not get them. Flicking speedy forehand drives into the corners of the Jacobs court, pounding her American twist serve to force defensive returns, dropping soft shots just over the net when her opponent tried to play deep, Alice Marble won six of the next seven games...