Word: softly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...November. We awaited Jenkins' opinion somewhat avidly. PERKINS: "Well, do you call that unbiased?" JENKINS: "I do not." 1 : "Then I lose. You both agree that it is undignified." JENKINS: "Not undignified, but not unbiased, either. A blarney article. I'm after thinking it a lot of soft soap in eulogy of Coolidge." I let Perkins and Jenkins go for one another. So, gentlemen, some call it mud slinging, and some call it soft soaping and I continue to congratulate you that it is neither...
Perhaps the polka, in ceding to the fox trot, has taken with it some of the charm of earlier days. Perhaps the bustle, the soft candle light, and the champagne punch, in fleeing before the straight gown, electrics, and lemonade, have also removed some of the grace that went with the quadrille. Or can it be that the efficiency of nowadays, as exhibited in the change from the graceful bow of invitation to the brazen cut-in, has enabled the present generation to get the same amount of enjoyment out of the dance in less time...
...University Instrumental Clubs will give a concert program of many specialties in the Living Room of the Union tonight at 8.15 o'clock. G. B. Moynahan '26 will give an exhibition of soft-shoe clogging, a line in which he is a well known specialist. He is also leader of the Banjo Club, and plays in the Jazz Orchestra, which has a place on the program. During the intermission Phillip Walker '25 will give a specialty act in sleight of hand...
Houses of Sand borrowed all it could from Madame Butterfly, including soft off-stage harmonies, and failed to repay the loan. It added certain novelties from which the edge was worn by unreality. The twist awards the Japanese heroine to the American hero (unknown to him, his mother was a Jap girl). Before this sweet solution can release the audience, there are six scenes in and about Manhattan, beginning with the meeting of the chief participants at a Far East bazaar in Forest Hills. The performers were generally apt but the play is apt to end presently in the storehouse...
Lack of ice in New Haven has made it possible for the Yale Freshmen to play but four games this season. The Dartmouth Freshmen were defeated 2 to 1 on February 19, in a game played on soft ice, while the Princeton 1928 sextet was downed by the same score last Saturday in the Hobey Baker Rink at Princeton...