Word: softener
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...laurels, could well afford to pass them along to an associate. The secret of the New Deal's success lies in the well-known fact that the time to make sociological hay is when, the economic sun is not shining. But four years of hard times did not soften the U. S. industrial order, which had gone its untrammeled way for generations. Given a program, given the political power to legalize it, it nevertheless took a dynamic personality to hammer the mold of "in- dustrial democracy" on to the nation's adamantine industrial life. Such...
White House spokesmen were careful to explain that the maneuver has no international significance, is being done chiefly for the benefit of the officers and enlisted men. Washington observers agreed, however, that putting the country's mailed fist into its eastern pocket might soften the blow to Japan of U. S. recognition of Russia. Said a Japanese Foreign Office official in Tokyo: "It will make a happy impression on the Japanese people...
Love and Babies (by Herbert P. Mc-Cormack, produced by Morris Green and Frank McCoy) is a domestically salacious trifle purporting to show how husbands and wives talk about procreation. Plot: a wife wants a baby, her husband does not. To soften him the wife invites as guests a couple who have a baby. The childless husband takes an interest but keeps his attitude. Meanwhile the father-husband fears his child has stolen his wife's love, receives an invitation from the childless wife to father her baby. He agrees, then reneges because he wants the other husband...
...Some may elect to join the spineless drift toward impending doom. Most, however, will choose, to struggle, trusting that a valiant resistance may perchance postpone somewhat the evil day, and perhaps soften its disasters, and at least guarantee to themselves the self respect of fighting against fate...
...Shaw has concluded his American visit. Mr. Shaw came to a nation which possessed of him varying estimates, where he was severally regarded as an able dramatist, a senile jokester, or a great man. He leaves that nation with an unmistakably altered following, most of whom are inclined to soften the edges of their criticism and to swell the songs of their praise. For whatever else may have been established by Mr. Shaw's tour, the circumstance of his mortality seems now indisputable, and, in his own words, "the persecution cannot be for much longer...