Word: softe
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...series, a canvas as large as the façade of a sizeable barn, depicts the liberation of Russian serfs by Tsar Alexander II in 1861. In a grey, snowy twilight a crowd of the poor are gathered in Moscow's Red Square. Looming through the soft fall of flakes is the ornate Cathedral of St. Basil, multicolored cupolas and towers bedizened with snow. Beyond lie the grim walls and towers of the Kremlin. The people have just heard the ukase. They stand in clusters, joyfully inarticulate, habitually stolid. The bizarre tints of the Cathedral glimmer like a huge...
...written in the Hollywood ritual that no evening is so sacred as the opening night of a potent picture. In soft purring motors come the stars through the bracing California evening. The blocks about the theatre are set with huge searchlights sweeping heaven. Fierce cordons of police force order in the crowds, thousands of common folk, many of whom have waited at vantage points since afternoon to see the gods descend from their chariots and pass nobly through the gates. Radio stations spread each new arrival's name across the miles of night. Stars cry their greeting through the microphone...
...jerseys, with a white canvas jacket over the jersey, and knee breeches that once had been white. There were no pads or head gears or similar protection, for mass play had not been invented. A few of the Harvard men went bareheaded while others wore crimson football caps of soft wool without visors; the Yale team wore long blue caps knit like a stocking with a blue tassel...
Item, lustre: for which there is neither test nor definition. It is the mellow glow emanating from an unblemished "skin," soft, warm, alive. If pearls are held between the eye and the light, some will show a translucent encircling band about one-fifth the width of their diameter. Such have the finer lustre...
...Arranger. Soft-voiced, suavely clad, brilliant Charles Seymour took a B. A. from Cambridge University when he was 19, then sailed home to his native New Haven, Conn., and took another B. A. from Yale. Since then the bright facets of Professor Seymour's mind have received an exquisite polish in the process of acquiring numerous exalted degrees, teaching history at Yale, helping to make it at the Paris Peace Conference, and writing or "arranging" various books dealing with the more secret phases...