Word: affectionate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cyrano, the play, offers romance trimmed and garnished with all the vast imagination of Edmond Rostand's genius. It makes no pretense of credibility; it is frankly a love story with plenty of swordplay and roses. Cyrano, himself, is an individual whose enormous heart is only exceeded in magnitude by...
Mary, Britain's domestic queen, universally beloved for her interest in better housing of the poor, is to receive the most magnificent doll's house ever made as a token of affection from her subjects. Sir Edwin L. Lutyens, designer of the Cenotaph, London's great war...
But it is in the skill with which the author has revealed to us the ties that bind father, mother, and son that the chief beauty of the play lies. Roderick contradicts and corrects his parents with all the impudence and contempt for their views so characteristic-or supposedly so...
Mr. Daugherty, whose deep personal affection for President Harding covered a period of nearly 30 years, had been invited to address the Harding memorial meeting in Manhattan on Nov. 2, Mr. Harding's birthday. Said he, none too steadily: " I couldn't go to such a meeting and...
This taboo, like all others, at times works hardship on the public. It arouses curiosity without allaying it. For example, it was recently news that Philadelphia baseball fans would present Cy Williams with a "new motor car " for his ability as a home-run hitter. Affection it was, pure and...