Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British destroyer H. M. S. Wishart, commanded by his cousin Lord Louis Mountbatten. Some years ago Alfonso XIII, then King of Spain, thought the Prince was deliberately insulting him when H. R. H. turned up at a review of the Spanish fleet in civilian grey flannels and a floppy soft hat (TIME, May 16, 1927). Last week loyal British residents of Cannes and officers of the Wishart understood that nothing was amiss when Royal Edward arrived for the inspection wearing rope-soled sandals, grey linen trousers, a brick red shirt, and with sporty, Baltimore-born Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson...
...screen (Little Miss Marker, Lady for a Day), the more involved a Runyon character is written, the harder it is to act. Actor Harrington seems to interpret Marco not so much as a droll picaroon but as a bumbling slob. But as Mike, Actor Sweeney is a soft-spoken Runyon killer of the first order. If A Slight Case of Murder outlasts Three Men on a Horse, its aging kinsman in the theatre next door, it will be due largely to Mr. Sweeney...
From his sanctum in Dunster the Vagabond hears a voice: College? A convention perhaps; just a necessary caste mark. But then again four years of unique opportunities. A soft-cushioned world to try your wings. All is here: Men from every walk of life; courses in every field. The college is for the student. Success or failure his own responsibility...
Swarming into their provincial capital at Edmonton last week, breezy, homespun Alberta citizens witnessed a low-hat, soft-collared inauguration exactly to their taste. Some of the legislators present were in sweaters. None of their wives ventured evening dress. The King's representative, Lieut.-Governor William Legh Walsh, who once grubbed for gold as a Yukon prospector, appeared in a grey suit and blue shirt to induct as Premier the mystically magnetic Calgary High School principal whose year-old Social Credit Party has just smashed all others in Alberta, winning 56 out of a possible 63 seats...
...successfully that the famed piece of unborn chicken's heart began to grow & grow. If in the 23 years since that experiment started his assistants had not periodically pared the embryonic tissue and destroyed the parings, the whole earth might now (theoretically) be covered with a film of soft flesh...