Word: softeners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hand on the bird That pivots over a spinning jet of air. Treading his tiny whirlpool-let my word Soften the iron synod of despair...
Unless you continue to print more of Mary Elizabeth Robinn's letters and stop using the word "Manhattan" I will stop my subscription. . . . That disappointed virgin Robinn must need a mate to soften her perennial ire against the Prince of Wales. As far as I can remember (and that is some two years back) she has been scolding you about the Prince's baggy eyes, or is it trousers? You need no humorous column as long as you sow your LETTERS with such luscious tidbits of outraged virginity. If you stop my subscription because of the above...
...trillions of the beans spilled about or shivered in their places as the Rhineland collided with the Japanese S. S. Mitsuki Maru. Then quiet again, and a trickling of yellow river water in among the beans. Like the droplets that crawl into men's beards to soften them for shaving; like the droplets that stole into the wooden wedges of Egyptian quarrymen exhuming stone for the Pyramids; like droplets that will steal into compressed Chinese waterflowers to make them bloom in bowls on Occidental library tables-so stole droplets of the yellow Yangtze flood in between the starch layers...
...curtain rises upon a chapel lit by a rose window and the interior of a hovel. Within the chapel rests the body of Agnes Devereaux, saintly lady. The village priest tells Toinette that Agnes Devereaux has made her the especial object of her benevolence, and Toinette is about to soften into sullen goodness when Michel enters. This brutal lover suggests stealing the cross from dead Agnes' breast. To prevent such blasphemy, Toinette rings the convent bell. Michel stops her and she cries out, "I'm done for." Contrast this with the ending of Il Pagliacci, "La comedia è finita...
...large university there is a tendency for the faculty to pursue a line never quite, tangent to undergraduate interest. Hence, the evident appreciation of Professor Copeland's attempt to touch the undergraduate sphere, in the words of Dean Briggs, "to store the memory, to expand the mind, to soften the prejudices, to sharpen the insight, and to strengthen the characters of human beings...