Word: softspoken
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There is, in Manhattan, a softspoken, smoothly tailored little man, with the warmest of hearts, the mildest of blue eyes, the suavest of manners, the nicest of English accents, and the attitude toward life-so far as you would guess to hear him purring of Señor Zuloaga's portraits or the latest...
...offices in Boston-colonial offices, exquisitely furnished-he appears, quiet, forceful, softspoken, a country gentleman, perhaps, receiving a caller in his study. I suppose many people think of him as a decided conservative, and of his publication as of the same shade of opinion. Not so. You have only to talk to Bostonians nourished in the elder tradition to find that they actually consider The Atlantic Monthly radical. Liberal, it assuredly is, and tuned to the latest thought; more liberal politically and culturally than it is in regard to literature. Yet it has often published matter of a startlingly controversial...