Word: softe
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...with , trepidatant that one attempts to express via the printed word and still more particularly via a daily newspaper any appreciation of beauty. Recriminations are too easy and accusations too ready; even now the words of the colored gentlemen, to the effect that "they are SO soft" ring in journalistic ears...
What redeeming features there are in the play appear in the really excellent work of Mrs. Ellspeth Dudgeon as the caustic, hard-headed, soft-hearted Mrs. Holmes, and the superb characterization of Violet Hunt by Miss Elsie Wagstaff, whose walk, voice, and manner give the very, spirit of the oldest profession. A word should also be said for Miss Doris Glaenzer, who was very entertaining as Alf's flat-footed first love. Mr. Clive, usually at home in any role, was not always quite convincing as a brother to all the world
...introduction of the shoulder-sling to the East Side, supplanting the unlovely bulge to the back trousers pocket that had been decreed by police custom. He it was who did away with the old gangster's code, under which to pump a man's back full of soft-nose bullets had been a faux pas bordering upon actual cowardice...
...monkey who swings by his tail and throws cocoanuts evolves into the man who walks upright and gets hit by the cocoanut; the callow Freshman evolves into the potent, grave, and reverend Senior; an Intercolleiate Dance evolves into a riot, and even music itself has evolved from the soft tinkling of rude strings to the raucous squawk of the saxaphone...
...merely hard usage that deadens rubber billiard cushions, windshield strips, matting, packing, belting, hose, tires. The soft air sucks life just as surely, though more insidiously. At the chemical laboratories of E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co., a new product has been invented-neozone. Rubber treated with neozone resists the subtle deterioration caused by oxygen in the air, thus retains life longer...