Word: softly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...registered at the institution last week for a sojourn of 18 months as a guest of the Government. He had been found guilty of violating a house rule when he had been there as manager in 1924, accepting tips from the guests-$10,500 worth-in exchange for soft berths. His present manager-host, Warden John W. Snook, saw to it that he was outfitted with a costume which will be inconspicuous so long as he remains within, and despatched him to the entresol where he was given a pick and shovel and told to pursue the tasks which...
...districts. In Illinois and Indiana, where the operators can afford to pay high wages, he may be successful. But there will undoubtedly be strikes in Ohio and Pennsylvania when the Jacksonville agreement expires on April 1. Such a strike will cause no immediate tremor, because there is already enough soft coal above ground and enough being mixed in the non-union fields of West Virginia and Kentucky to last well into next winter...
...rising generation of Spaniards, suffering from the taunts of soft tender-hearted foreigners, has objected. They wish their bullfights; they wish the bull to attack the horse; but they will accept an attack involving less gore, less evisceration. To this end horses have been provided with experimental steel armor, led into rings, offered to angered bulls. But from the standpoint of all (save the horses) steel armor has been a failure. The bulls have refused to bruise their horns against the unyielding protection...
Polly of Hollywood is determined to be a musical novelty. It burlesques the cinema in several moderately boisterous skits. It insists upon novelty by presenting a horse that Charlestons, by leading onto the stage a bull with a ring in his soft nose, by allowing trapeze acrobats to fly about overhead (as in the film, Variety). It does all these things forthrightly, evincing honest desire to give the public a Super-Feature Musical Comedy Satire, as advertised. The funniest thing of all is when the hero, protesting his constant affection for the heroine who is about to leave...
This gypsum gink or hillside hoopus?whatever its name might be?had soft black fur girdled with white, and white cuffs above its paws. Its front paws resembled human hands, Mr Miller said, except that the hairy black fingers reminded him of a tarantula. He could span the animal's neck with his thumb and forefinger, though it stood 30 inches high and weighed 20 pounds. The hind paws were sharply clawed, for climbing and scratching. A sharp-pointed face peered out from a fringe of mustache, like a monkey's. The nose was hard, smooth, rubbery. With its sharp...