Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...echoing rotunda of the U. S. Capitol, when the last creaking footstep of the final tourist has died away, when the Capitol police unbutton collars and open night-school lawbooks, and the fat rats begin their soft scuttling around the old statues-then, says legend, the great ghosts of the U. S. past meet for nightly debate over the day's issues. One sweet autumn night last week those historic phantoms had a new historic event to talk over. For as surely as if the votes were already counted, as definitely as if the President had already signed...
...poster outside an enlistment office in Newark, N. J. had to be taken down last week. Reason: It was too effective. Its screaming eagle and covey of zooming pursuit planes made every recruit want to join the Air Corps. To lean, soft-spoken Major Thomas B. Woodburn, this was cause for quiet satisfaction. With the U. S. Army upped to 227,000 men by Presidential proclamation, it is Tom Woodburn's job to boom recruiting. He paints posters to that end, rejoiced to hear that his latest was so attractive...
...Westwall section 100 miles east-west behind the Saar Valley, along which the Allies were feeling for a soft spot, is one of the newest. Behind it valleys run into the Rhine from the North and East. But no military observer expected any immediate smashing of the Siegfried Stellung, 1939 style...
...same day Mark, having located the town by the postmark on his mother's frightened note, goes to interview the Commissioner of Secret Police. The Commissioner, soft, dreamy, epicene, watches Mark's pleading as if it were a boring play, tells him to come back Wednesday for information about his mother. Mark does not know that Emmy is to be executed Wednesday morning. But then Mark meets the Countess and his real excitement begins...
...soft and womanly Wellesley girl, available for Saturday dates until one o'clock and on other nights until ten or eleven, is the Harvard Freshman's traditional favorite. He will do well to ignore Wellesley's stated preference for Dartmouth, Princeton, and Gonzaga Teachers' College; distant pastures always look greener...