Word: softe
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...lanky and thin-shouldered, though he carries his height well. Onetime Senator Jim Reed of Missouri, who disliked him intensely, referred to him sneeringly in debate as "The Tall Cedar of Lebanon." His features have an Indian regularity, almost handsome. His expression is one of serene superiority. His soft snow-white hair stands out in the shadowy Senate chamber like a white plume. When he walks he strides. His suits are soft and grey, easy-fitting. While a Harvard post-graduate student (1900), he married short, slender Alfreda Mitchell of New London, Conn., who has borne him seven large sons...
...This typically Mexican scene," cabled esthetic Herald Tribune Correspondent Jack Starr-Hunt, "was capped by a military band that played soft, doleful music, contrasting sharply with the brilliance of the blue sky overhead...
...hour after the chestnut horse had kicked the boards in his stall at the smell of smoke there were no more screams of burning horses. The reluctant dawn sky had turned bright blue; smoke still curled into the still air; and exercise boys were breezing their colts around the soft dirt track...
Editor Marcus A. Rose of The Business Week: "Business will be good in 1930 for the lean, hard firms. It will not be good for the fat, soft outfits...
...German hospital overlooking the Rhine was one ward known as the Whistlers' Room. Here were four men who had been shot through the throat; each had a silver tube set ingeniously into his neck to serve as a windpipe. "When they breathed quickly or laughed, a soft piping note, like the squeaking of mice, came from the silver mouth. Hence they were called the neck whistlers, or simply the whistlers...