Word: soothingly
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When the Queen-Empress returned from this function she found Baby Betty in a teething fret, with Nurse Knight attempting to sooth her. Three days later the Princess cut her first tooth...
...aromatic tobacco smoke. If no obstacle is encountered the librarians will work on the basis that the proverbial tired business man is not at all a nonenity, but an actuality in the business plant across the Charles and needs nothing so much as a restful pipe of tobacco to sooth his nerves as he labors over ponderous volumes...
...escapade of his turbulent daughter causes suspicion of infidelity. Mother as judge, witness, plaintiff, tries Mr. Hodge for divorce, and upon explanations all around is overcome by belated material passion. Assurances on the program by allegedly potent grey-wigs testify to the plot's "legal possibilities," presumably to sooth lay doubts. Gladys Hanson as the wife in trousers ably supports laconic, "stagey" Mr. Hodge...
Depressing. When Lightweight Champion Benny Leonard retired from the ring (TIME, Jan. 26) in order to sooth the declining years of his mother, the New York Boxing Commission proclaimed a tournament to see who should succeed him. Two men reached the finals. This couple-one James Goodrich (Buffalo), one Stanislaus Loayza (Chile)-fought a depressing bout last week on Long Island. In the first round, Goodrich walked over to the Chilean, hit him in the face with his right fist. Loayza fell down, got up again. Goodrich hit him in the face with his right fist, etc. This operation...
...sooth, it is the beginning of the end. The cap and gown garb is a sort of cocoon from which the Senior will emerge as a very humble moth in June. But the cocoon days are happy ones, and rightly. The soberness of the robe signifies no corresponding gloom in the class; Nineteen-fourteen has not assumed black to mark its declining days. On the contrary, Nineteen-fourteen is just beginning to live. What with Junkets and picnics, and bright days and gay nights, cap and gown time will pass quickly and merrily. So, paraphrasing the advice given...