Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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History has been in the making at University Hall for the past few days ever since John Simoneau, New Hampshire soft drink tycoon whose personality may be described as a combination of Florenz Ziegfeld, Jacob Ruppert, Jack Benny, Paul Harris, and Tex Rickard, has been making his presence felt in no uncertain manner...
...ringside seat at a memorable political show. When Mayor Thompson ousted him in 1927, he started a medical column in the Daily News, got on the Sanitary District's pay roll and four years later had back his old job as Health Board president. By adroit soft-pedaling Dr. Bundesen weathered the scandal surrounding Chicago's amebic dysentery epidemic during the 1933 Century of Progress...
...winter's painful stay in Havana. Alfonso Pio Cristino Eduardo Francisco Guillermo Carlos Enrique Eugenio Fernando Antonio Venancio, Knight of the Golden Fleece, was born Prince of Asturias 29 years ago next month. He grew up to be a sufferer from hemophilia. His skin is thin, his muscles soft, and his blood does not clot. Consequently a slight cut or bruise may start a fatal hemorrhage, as slight cuts and bruises in an automobile accident did to .his late hemophilic brother (TIME, Aug. 20, 1934). They inherited their blood ailment from their mother, a granddaughter of England...
Golden Miller, winner in 1934, fell at the first fence. His jockey remounted but the Miller refused at Valentine's Brook and was withdrawn. Avenger, overnight favorite because the track was soft, fell at the first jump the second time round, broke his neck, had to be shot. At odds of 100-to-1, Lord Mildmay's stallion Davy Jones took the lead from the start and held it the second time around, over Becher's Brook, around the Canal Turn and past Valentine's Brook. There were two jumps left before the finish...
...become Guggenheimers, young writers do well to know such bigwigs as Critic Henry Seidel Canby (Saturday Review of Literature), who have much unofficial say-so as to who gets what. Applicants may do even better by knowing a modest, soft-voiced scholar named Henry Allen Moe, who is Secretary of the Guggenheim Foundation, has in twelve years threaded his way through a round 10,000 applications. Secretary Moe spends much time digging out prospective Fellows. A few have been so shy that he "had to drag them in by the heels." When Secretary Moe lights on a likely applicant...