Word: softly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Denver appointed a "public guardian and administrator," to care legally for its waifs, strays; and orphans. The appointee was a young man from Tennessee, Benjamin Barr Lindsey, who two years later became judge of Denver's juvenile court, which office he occupied ever since. Denver was not a soft town. And there was that in it, a scurrilous newspaper (the Post), which put a terrible premium upon the social transgressions which sensational news pages did much to promote. Judge Lindsey has been a very busy man for 26 years, dealing with recalcitrant, vicious, ignorant and also foolish, reckless...
...Kalish went on tour. Shy, roundheaded, soft-eyed and massive, he shook hands gently with mid-western art groups and, rolling up his sleeves, showed his big muscles to anyone asking about them. "Michelangelo was strong, like me," he said. "You have to be strong to do-these things. ..." In Cleveland his Christ, one of the most widely advertised pieces of sculpture in the U. S., was exhibited. Many expressed approval. Buyers-were few. A middle-aged lady, struck by its strong religious content (which, she explained to a reporter, particularly appealed to her because of family troubles encountered...
...Prince Pu, with European hair, has the clear intelligent gaze of a Pekinese. There is Hsuan Tung, a petal-faced youth, the deposed Emperor; others, in stiff silk, noblemen, princes, knights. Mrs. Jacobs, a clever and sophisticated painter, does her work well, suggesting an exotic atmosphere with diminishing ovals, soft colors. She did not always charge her patrons for her work. Said she: "My reluctance profited me shamefully. Soft-footed coolies would come to the door with great bundles of priceless silk. Coral necklaces, jade bracelets, jewels marvelous for their antiquity as well as their intrinsic worth, all were sent...
...might well expect a theatre in the centre of a college community to be the scene of much rowdiness and laughter. The woman cornetist, the soft-voiced radio singer and the company of female artists would all be expected to receive enough ridicule to be good for them and satisfying to the audience. Such, however is not the case. The dignified atmosphere of the place stands out so clearly that to some of the more collegiate it must be painful. Perhaps the aristocratic ushers with a college education and baby blue tuxedoes so impress the student body that silence...
...news of his death flashed out over the wires to all parts of the world. Columns were written, summing him up, pointing out his contributions to society, remarking on his greatness. There was some dissecting, much praising. But there was none of the soft sentimentality which so often surrounds the death of a man in the public eye. He had been too strong for that sort of emotion...