Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...times at charity bazaars in London) was very like her father, Edward VII, not in the least like her beautiful mother, Alexandra. Princess Victoria had the prominent, rather staring blue eyes of her father, Edward VII, and his curved nose, while her mother, Queen Alexandra, had delicate features and soft, dark blue eyes...
...soft Chunk, chunk sounded from the press benches as pneumatic tubes carried down to the press room below the news that the Supreme Court was about to pass on the AAAct in a test case brought by the Government against a New England textile mill regarding the cotton processing tax (TIME, Dec. 23 et ante). In slow precise tones, seldom consulting the written opinion that lay before him, Mr. Justice Roberts proceeded to outline the law and the nature of the case. For some minutes none of the hearers in the crowded courtroom knew which way the decision would...
...Marshal Chang wouldn't have you now!" Replying with spirit. Miss Wu chaffed back: "I'm not too fat. Have a look! I'll go on making pictures for at least two more years." In China such a job as Butterfly Wu's is not soft. If she is playing a distraught mother grieving when her child is killed, the Chinese director is apt to decide that a real mother in such circumstances would weep for 23 minutes. Hence Miss Wu must and does weep for 23 minutes in the Chinese film, which is probably...
...bespeak boredom as well as polite indifference, cold irony, or even anger. The courtiers know these different expressions well and retire suddenly when the monarch's glance becomes indifferent, then hard. On the other hand, especially when he is dealing with Europeans, his eyes know how to be soft, caressing, affable-and even sincere...
...administering justice," concludes Bronxville's McDonald, "is in conformity with the definition of the law given by Alfred Rosenberg . . .: 'Law is what the "Aryan" man deems to be right; legal wrong is what he rejects.' " By this arrangement of German Justice, a situation is created which soft-spoken James Grover McDonald feels ought to cause the Great Powers to deal with Germany in a manner "friendly but firm...