Word: softly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...start the morning off with a strong does of economics is an action that requires true intellectual curiosity. Although some may think that the vagabond with his inclination towards evening concerts, art galleries, and the theatre is a soft individual unwilling to sacrifice his personal comfort for his intellectual advancement, these sceptics are nevertheless wrong, and in proof of this the vagabond has determined to learn about the Amalgamation of Banking in England since 1880. To find out about this he must turn his steps toward Harvard 1 at 9 o'clock to hear Professor Gay's talk on this...
...soft, the violets smell...
...presume", queries Perplexed, "that one is walking down the avenue--any avenue will do--and a soft purring noise is heard at one's side. Then, gentle, palpitating, irridescent, comes a voice of a young female and turning one beholds a Chrysler roadster or a Stutz roadster or even a Hispano-Suiza (although this would be very improbable). The occupant, a woman--young, comely and solitary--inquires as to whether or not one would care to ride. What is the correct action to take? I am a stranger in your city...
Respectable Brooklynites grew vexed at the slurs which the Crime Commission made on the Red Hook children. Said a priest of the neighborhood: "When I look at these beautiful innocent little children, so quiet and nice in manner, I have a feeling that they are entirely too gentle and soft for the rough world that awaits them...
...ports, one's profits on butter-stamps, axes, ballads, candles, sermons, maple sugar, hats, horse liniment and soft soap, could be put into indigo, poplin, clocks, Bibles, Jews-harps, carriages, beads. One swapped for a horse and, if one's reputation permitted, peddled home again to dazzle the village with a city wardrobe and watch-chain...