Word: affectionate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶The clean aromatic smell of raw pine wood spread through the White House. Excelsior littered the floors. Busy workmen in overalls came and went. Mrs. Coolidge was packing. Into 150 new boxes, crates and barrels under her careful eye went objets d'art, china, books, whittling knives, stag...
Of all native opera, The King's Henchman shot with medieval Saxon moonbeams is the only one ever retained so long as three seasons in the repertoire of the Metropolitan Opera. The Henchman was sung again last week, and out poured another audience filled with that unique combination of...
Both men are tough-knuckled fighters of the old Marine school. Each came to eminence through battle smoke and war fury. Both are Southerners. For each the Corps has a large, profane, unsentimental affection. Both are burdensomely decorated for bravery in action, Gen. Neville having the edge with a Congressional...
Few men in their first twenty-five years out of college attain the position which Mr. Roosevelt holds in the affection of his fellow-citizens. The Class of 1904 is peculiarly fortunate in being able to offer as Chief Marshal a man of his calibre.
As the Princess might have anticipated, Octavian found the young Sophie more alluring than herself, and immediately set about detaching Sophie's affection from the fat and lecherous Ochs. This was done in an instant, and it was next necessary for the count to employ strategies in order to prevent...