Word: softly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recompense. Robert Keable's novel has thus been canned in strips. It makes inferior fare. Monte Blue, the actor whose face is so soft you expect it to melt any moment, is the chaplain who tore off his white collar and went to war. Later-to Africa in the wool business-injured-back to London. On convenient pretext, the girl is introduced at every episode. One can afford to be distant both to her and to her story...
...sensibility and finesse, or his modernity in things aesthetic. But Publisher Nast is more practical. For some time he was advertising, then business manager of Collier's Weekly. He now has a string of publications of his own.* His polish is as that of hard ebony beside the soft silk of Mr. Crowninshield...
Music, when soft voices...
...cold morning last week, people began to congregate around the track, in toppers, bowlers, soft felts. Those wearing caps wandered about outside the stands or perched like rooks in trees about the course. The Kang was not there nor was the Prince of Wales; but this unusual state of affairs was to some extent remedied by the presence of Lord Derby and other famed sportsmen. Time went on; a bell rang; 33 spry horses came out and began to dance. Suddenly the crowd took a long breath; Lord Derby lifted his binoculars; yoho, they were off, yo frightfully...
...during the past six days and I am aware of distinct improvement in my hearing, not only when using it, but when I lay it aside in my home. I find that I hear best with the lever of the transmitter on the stop next but one to the 'soft' end of the scale...