Word: affectionate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Walter Prichard Eaton, it is said, may be summoned to Harvard to staunch the wound made by Yale in its drama department. The hurt university could do few wiser things than to employ Mr. Eaton to succeed Professor Baker as a tutor to the dramatists. As a critic he has...
Every time that you disclose your mind to me you increase my admiration and affection for you. I am glad to promise you that with regard to my personal correspondence and similar papers, I shall regard you as my preferred creditor, and shall expect to afford you the first-and...
Before sailing back to chivalrous France, Elise and Jules Jusserand, the mistress and master of the French Embassy at Washington, did a gentle and a Gallic deed. For 22 years, these two have represented France upon these shores ; and now, retiring to a well-earned rest, they wished to leave...
About this time it was noticed that the King listened patiently to his Ministers, but did not always act upon their advice. He developed a most curious thirst for knowing all the facts of a case and, more extraordinary, he even insisted upon knowing both sides of a question. Never...
Chiefest and best known among his peccant intimates of those stormy days was the lady known as "Claire", a Highland lass, actually named Kate Drummond, "slim and dark, very trim and neat, with jet-black hair." She was one of the class aptly known as "unfortunates", but Stevenson's affection...