Word: softly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glowing words she drew a picture of the clubhouse: 1,225 bedrooms, a miniature park enclosed, a garden terrace for tea, fireplaces flanked by soft divans, ballrooms, assembly rooms for musicales and lectures, libraries, laundries, dining-rooms, cafeteria-she completed her towering picture. The envious were free to mutter "ground-grippers...
Down Mobile way, darkies croon to the night on soft spring evenings, grin, tip hats, as they shuffle past white "gemmen," still their noble lords if not their masters. Fortnight ago, Clarence Darrow, keen-witted, sharp-tongued Northern lawyer, stopped in Mobile, Ala., made speeches to wide-mouthed black men attacking Negro lynchings. On street corners hot-blooded white men gathered, muttered curses on Mr. Darrow, "damned Yankee" agitator. At Negro schools, able Lawyer Darrow repeated his speeches to the "new Negro." Klan circulars said he said: "Resist your white masters. ... I see you pray, but to what good? . . . Your...
...Count was "a tall supple figure, indefinite features, eyes which in Bismarck's opinion were enough to spoil the best breakfast, large soft hands, a Narcissus-like grace of bearing . . . brilliantly witty. . . . This remarkable, many-sided man ... is the seductive picture of an aristocratic Cagliostro, formed to bewitch the young Prince." Soon Eulenburg could write in his diary: "The Prince's affection for me was an ardent one . . . my musical performances drove him into almost feverish, raptures . . . always sitting beside me and turning the pages . . . and he loved to greet me with turns and phrases from my verses...
...them for traces of ancient afflictions. The oldest skulls, now weazened and leather-covered, showed teeth in perfect condition. People of 4,000 to 6,000 years ago ate coarse foods which prevented dental decay. But by the time of the Christian Era, Egyptian life was luxurious, food was soft. Consequently tooth decay was as prevalent as today. One batch of 500 mummies showed at least one tooth rotted in each skull, and almost every set of teeth covered with tartar...
Tennyson certainly did not mean to exclude even a young Vagabond when he wrote his famous lines reminiscent of a certain curve in the Charles River Parkway, the bright lights of Revere Beach, and soft moons seen from the rumble seats of innumerable roadsters. Having recklessly indulged in his first ice cream cone of the year and permitted himself to be driven around the Wellesley campus the sage frequenter of musty lecture rooms has experienced an emancipation of his "physical amativeness" which will enable him to arise promptly with the twitterings of his alarm clock, breast the tempestuous waves...