Word: softly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Pitt-innumerable others-touched the high places when they were much too young, according to our Constitution (which is soft in spots) to have been Presidents of the United States. At 32 Alexander Hamilton became the first and greatest of all Secretaries of the Treasury but was, of course, much too young and inexperienced to have been President. In this country men from 40 to 50, having failed at every venture, worm, shout and lie their way into Congress. Once there they will stop at no lie, slander, or debt wished upon posterity, if they think...
...time. Female knitters are called Sister Susies after the popular World War I song: Sister Susie's sewing shirts for soldiers, Such skill at sewing shirts our shy young sister Susie shows, Some soldiers send epistles, Say they'd sooner sleep in thistles, Than the saucy soft short shirts for soldiers sister Susie sews...
Singled out as "The Commander in Chief of Knitting" was retired Vice Admiral Hubert Seeds ("The Dear") Monroe, 62, newly appointed chairman of the Royal Navy War Comforts Committee. For the wartime saucy soft short shirts of British sailors, posited the Admiralty in a broadside to knitters last week, it is necessary to employ two-ply and even three-ply yarn...
...York, I was exceedingly impressed with the dancibility of the band, and their swing septet that really plays swing. In other words, they don't work out very flossy arrangements and then tell everybody that they made them up on the second. It's strictly ab lib, and soft, and very good...
...soft, indeed, were the tones of the British Army's crooning that they caused audible snorts in the letters-to-the-editor columns of Britain's press. These by-Gad-sirs huffed that U. S. jazz and crooners had sapped the grand traditions of martial music. Said they: "The whole difference [between 1914 and now] is that then we called men 'lads' and now we call lads 'men.' . . . Little Sir Echo is in waltz time, and no army ever waltzed its way to victory...