Word: softly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...judgment at all times. And this is wise. Conceive Mr. Dumbjohn the name is itself traditional who receives an appointment to the Academy Promptly Father and Mother Dumbjohn print accounts of young hopeful's appointment in the Podunk paper. He is given farewell parties, he lords it over the soft-eyed damsels, he is escorted to the train with the Podunk Fireman's band. The hero is doing the Government a favor to become a cadet...
...mood of invincible optimism. Three years ago they were speculating in Florida real estate and finally that bubble burst. They then speculated in urban real estate. . . . Now they have turned to the stockmarket, where prices of the stocks of mail order houses, chain stores, motor companies and soft-drink firms are selling on a basis to yield half as much as the obligations of the U. S. government...
Apparently there is a love that passes all understanding, which has its roots so-firmly enbedded in the strong soft of truth that superficial guy wises are but an undignified insult to an inherent stability. It is fortunate as well as gratifying that there is a spokesman for this loyalty who will reach those parts of the country which have hither to taken Harvard indifference literally...
...even the Brighton abattoir deludes one into a vague resentment against its vociferous detractors. The passing of slim, long, smoothly-swinging eights, joyful with the leisurely power of an early season paddle but intensifies the easy rhythm of the scene, while an artistic contrast is afforded by the soft pad-padding of the occasional cross-country candidate. Through the trees the glimpses of the fields persuade one that men still play games because they love them...
Another Carmelite nun, leaving her cloister on the same occasion, for the first time in 33 years, said in a soft voice...