Word: softe
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...last week the real seat of U. S. Government was the front seat of President Roosevelt's specially-built Plymouth touring car. In it for hours at a time he drove along the dried clay roads around Warm Springs, Ga. carrying all problems of state under his soft felt...
...what Mr. Fitzpatrick had told him. In view of Mr. Fitzpatrick's long service in Prairie, the Rockefellers had confided that they were going to make some money for him, that they had arranged for Blair & Co. to turn the trick. "I told him that it was pretty soft for him," Mr. Sinclair added...
...simplest way to explain it is to say that we have put knees on our automobiles. Each front wheel will be attached individually to the chassis by its own soft spring. When it encounters a bump or a hole, it will rise or fall independently, as your leg is lifted or straightened by its knee without affecting your other leg or the equilibrium of your body. The result will be that the wheel, not the passenger, will...
...mind. The New York League of Composers gave a concert and a reception which half the musical somebodies in town attended. Most of them looked bored or completely baffled but they listened politely to two string quartets, a group of songs, three piano pieces. Schönberg made a soft, frightened little speech. He was charmed . . . everyone was so kind...
...itself in Russia. The original Bolsheviks placed the furtherance of the world revolution above all else; this has now been superseded y a realistic foreign policy assiduous in advancing the interests of Russia. While a great deal of verbal balderdash about the international proletariat still goes on, it is soft-pedalled and nationalism is encouraged...