Word: softest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with which the players on the class elevens enter into the games for the college championship, there still is one feature of their play which I cannot admire. There is much profane language indulged in by some of the players and, as they do not always speak in the softest of tones, the practice has excited some comment. Especially was such sulphurous language objectionable on Monday when several ladies were present at the game. Their presence, which ought, if anything could, to have retained their careless or thoughtless players of whom I speak, seemed to have little or no effect...
...pleasures and our principal personages. The men who have made the greatest fame in art are those who have portrayed the times in which they lived. Art is not only concerned with the dramatic moments of our lives, its province is as much to portray lovely color and softest shades of light. That artist will be most in sympathy with the spirit of to-day, who feels and portrays the influence of his surroundings, no matter how homely or simple...
...description with a humorous satire on the misadventures of an Oxford professor of Arabic who in imagination has been transferred to the heaven of his studies and there meets with the author, as described in the following All the land is misty and fragrant with the perfume of the softest Latakia, and the gardens are musical with the bubbling of countless naghiles; and I must say that to the Christian soul which enters that paradise the whole place has, certainly, a rather curions air, as of a highly transcendental Cremorne. There could be no doubt, however, that the faithful were...
...white paper and its contrasting black ink, Mr. Yorke suggests the use of green paper and colored inks. Nature and science declare that it should be green. It is the commonest color in nature and the most refreshing. It has an infinite variety of shades, and it is the softest color. It is the most permanently grateful, fatigues the eyes least, and is the color on which they will the longest and most willingly repose. Then, why should we not reform the abuse as the means lie so completely in our power? Let us have our books printed on green...
Harper's Weekly has the following in regard to a Harvard graduate: "The Rev. George Gordon of Greenwich, Conn., has been called to the pastorship of the Old South Church, Boston - one of the 'softest,' as it is one of the most historical, pulpits in the United States. The salary is $8000 a year and parsonage. Mr. Gordon is a Scotchman, thirty years old, and unmarried. He worked his way through Harvard, overcoming many obstacles incident to poverty, and graduated with high honors. President Eliot speaks of him as one of the most remarkable graduates for many years...