Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since then, despite the fact that sociologically the death penalty exists only as a horrible warning to others, most newspapers have soft-pedaled electrocutions. Newshawks, many of whom leave a death chamber retching, rarely report such details as the victim's mouth foaming, hair burning, flesh giving off sparks. Exception was the Ruth Snyder execution in 1928, when the tabloid New York Daily News attained a U. S. circulation record of 1,556,000 by front-paging a photograph of the husband-killer in the electric chair. That picture, called by Editor & Publisher "the most sensational ever seen...
...show the attentive politicians how it was done. An attendant scrubbed the gaunt tuberculous woman's chest with alcohol. Dr. Joannides anesthetized a small area between two ribs. Then he took a jar of filtered air from a shelf. To the mouth of the jar was attached a soft rubber tube. To the other end of the tube Dr. Joannides fastened a large hollow needle. This he jabbed between the unflinching woman's ribs, kept it there while the air sighed from the jar into the vacuum around her diseased lung. When he judged that the cushion...
...bean oil for paints, varnishes and soft soap, soy beans are crushed into flakes, treated with hydrocarbon solvent such as hexane or benzene. The oil and the solvent are filtered off. The solvent is recovered from the oil by distillation; from the mash by steaming under pressure. Last week's jury of scientists looked along this line of operations for vulnerable spots. They found that two 4,000-gal. tanks of hexane had not exploded. Neither had the two 50,000-gal. oil storage tanks, nor the stills, nor the pressure apparatus. The blast, in fact, seemed to have...
...blown into the reptile house, picked up an armful with Bandy-Bandy asleep in their midst. Meanwhile ebullient ex-Curator Wiley advised Chicagoans who want to bathe rattlesnakes, "Get them in a good humor first and then bathe in lukewarm water. They like to be dried with a soft towel. Be very gentle...
Radiant raindrops couching in cool flowers... High view towards Memorial Chapel from steps of Widener at noon... The caressing melancholy of a glowing fire on a rainy evening... The words: "So Red the Rose", Friend, Kindliness, Philosophy... A symphony concert in a large soft-toned hall, dimly lighted... The musty reek that lingers about dead leaves and last year's ferns... The epitaph: "Go tell the Spartans ye that passest by, That here obedient to their laws we lie"... View of John Weeks bridge from Duster at dusk... A little child relating a pleasant dream... A lovely girl in evening...