Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legend of frugality by his friends. His miserly appearance, his proclivity for backing the athletic teams of his Alma Mater, the State University, with nickel bets, have helped win him the title of "Coolidge of the West." Landon backers noisily point out that Kansas has no State debt. Soft-pedaled is the fact that many a Kansan would have gone hungry in the past two years without the Federal Government's donation of $100,000,000 in relief funds (equal to the State's annual income...
...nation's 400,000 soft-coal miners who quit work last fortnight (TIME, Sept. 30) their strike turned out to be nothing but a good, profitable rest. While they loafed and slept, representatives of operators and miners who had been haggling in Washington since mid-February came to terms in four days. Contracts were signed to begin this week, run until April 1, 1937. Day-rate workers, including two-thirds of all miners, got their basic pay upped from $5 to $5.50 per day. Adding on similar increases for piece-workers, operators figured their labor bill had been raised...
...sent to Mexico to get over it by her choleric Army officer father. There she meets a roistering young soldier (Robert Young) whom she tricks into helping her get back to Washington. What at times, during the return trip in a trailer owned by an irresponsible person with a soft baritone voice (Cliff Edwards), almost becomes a passable imitation of It Happened One Night, degenerates on their arrival into a tedious display of Red-baiting, climaxed when the soldier breaks up the meeting at which the radical is making a speech. Silliest shot: Robert Young pointing...
Even persons full of romantic feeling for soft country-like walks will not mourn the passing of dirty shoes, wet feet, stubbed toes, and twisted ankles. Nor will they fail to appreciate during the winter the comfort of not having to step off the boards into the snow at each passing of a professor's wife...
...HARVARD, no man is socially correct until he has a "Wiffles" haircut. A "Wiffles" is nothing more nor less than a convict haircut. And they order "tonics" instead of soft drinks, and send their clothes to the "cleansers." There is also the tradition that the men grow bushy beards during finals...