Word: affectionate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Story.* On a December night in 1906, a ferocious storm swept across Glebeshire. In its cathedral town of Polchester (by the river, by the sea) in her old, old house in Canon's Yard, sat Mrs. Penethen, respected, kindly widow. She sat by her kitchen fire, her skirt...
One Edward Fitzgerald had a real affection for the pedigreed Guernsey bull belonging to Mrs. Helen Ledger Wood of Red Bank, N. J., where he was formerly employed. Every Sunday afternoon he visited the bull, petted him, let him out of the pen for a romp. Last week he was...
It is Myra's story, but her young years with that illiterate, powerful old man made her much that she was. With such love as she and Oswald Henshawe had, another woman might have stayed happy. But ambition for him and hatred of their poverty ate her heart. Her...
The Du Ponts and other moneyed aristocrats of Wilmington, Del., were honored not long ago to entertain young Baron George Exter Friedrich von Krupp, heir apparent to the vast Krupp works at Essen. The Baron was no mustachioed warlord but, on the contrary, save for his short-clipped blond hair...
The Sultan's heart was heavy with pain but he centered all his affection on his remaining daughter Dayang-Dayang?for she is dutiful. Soon she is to marry a Malayan Prince and go to live in Singapore, some 1,200 miles across the island-broken seas.