Word: affectionate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Certain it is," declares Herr Ludwig, "that at 27 Prince Wilhelm lost his heart. ... [He had married at 22, took no mistresses.] Suppressed sentimentality needed a field for ardour, fancy yearned for an artistic friendship. . . . And he found it all in Count Philip Eulenburg, to whom he was most fervently...
The Count was "a tall supple figure, indefinite features, eyes which in Bismarck's opinion were enough to spoil the best breakfast, large soft hands, a Narcissus-like grace of bearing . . . brilliantly witty. . . . This remarkable, many-sided man ... is the seductive picture of an aristocratic Cagliostro, formed to bewitch...
Polly of Hollywood is determined to be a musical novelty. It burlesques the cinema in several moderately boisterous skits. It insists upon novelty by presenting a horse that Charlestons, by leading onto the stage a bull with a ring in his soft nose, by allowing trapeze acrobats to fly about...
Bill Lutz has a master's affection for the shells which he makes in the workshop in the Weld Boathouse across the river. "I'm turning out three craft this year," he said. "Two new 'lights' took to the water this fall, and the Number 15 model will be ready...
"Impossible! At no price could I accept that condition. I know that the King is very sick, and I know also the love and affection that he really has for me. I know the sentiment that caused him suddenly to change his formal decision not to see me again. I...