Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago officers of the Department of Superintendence of the National Education Association approached Manager James E. Darst of St. Louis' Municipal Auditorium, suggested that he sell only soft drinks at the bar during the annual school superintendents' convention. Instead Manager Darst added two extra bartenders. Last week the convention ended and Manager Darst could preen himself on his acumen. The 8,000 superintendents had consumed more liquor at his bar than did the American Legion last autumn...
...modern movement began as a revolt against the conventional prettiness of the oldtime classical ballet. Isadora Duncan fought for freedom, seemed revolutionary when she appeared in soft Grecian costumes rather than stiffly-starched tarlatan, interpreted music according to her own personal reaction. The great Isadora had an influence on the Russian Choreographer Michel Fokine who did most to emancipate the ballet from its rigid routine, its stiff, old-fashioned patterns. But the classical technique persists, still holds claim to first importance wherever ballet is given...
...real flair for the violin, fast-flying fingers that found the notes surely, an earnest sensitive approach to the music she played. Even so, finicky critics refused to pronounce her ripe for a concert career. The quality of her tone was often small and immature, best suited to the soft feathery Cuckoo which delighted her audience so much that she had to play it twice...
Forcing the issue throughout the match, Glidden was in danger only in the second game when his opponent's soft lobbing and easy drop shots appeared to upset the Crimson star, but the rallied and ran out the last game and a half with little difficulty...
...basis which was not itemized. It would be hard to prove how much of the processing tax had been passed on. To keep the refund melon all to themselves, processors relied upon a legal precedent growing out of Wartime excise taxes. In 1918 Congress passed a law taxing soft drinks 10%. A cider manufacturer paid the tax under protest, maintaining that cider could not properly be called a soft drink. Eventually the courts agreed with him, and the Treasury returned his payments. Then his customers sued him for the extra 10% which he had admittedly added to the price...