Word: affectionate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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It misted, drizzled and poured, but the Brown Derby waved from the Battery to Central Park at cheering, milling millions. In the evening, Madison Square Garden was a tornado of noisy, militant affection. Unlike his opponent under similar circumstances, Governor Smith was at ease. He let his people exult, exulted...
A polite tempest of gossip and denial that the great Earl of Birkenhead would resign as Secretary of State for India was finally stilled, last week, when he, burly, brilliant and socially lionized, despatched to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin a lengthy letter. Suave, it concluded: "The moment of parting is...
But the designing strangers, Americans, Englishmen, Frenchmen, had not reckoned on the many patriotic Dutchmen, particularly the cosmopolite Deterding. He sped over from London. When the bidding began the potency of Dutch oil, of Dutch nurture, became plain. The Letter by Gerard Terboch stood on the easel, a slight canvas...
"Certain unscrupulous telegraphic agencies continue to resort to rumors of political difficulties in Spain, forgetting in the first place that, properly said, there is not any politics at present. The last rumor is the most picturesque, assuming that His Majesty, while at San Sebastian, had refused his signature to the...
All this has been done a thousand times before; generally, however, with boots, spurs, duels, serious passions. The Command Performance is modern romance, feathery, sophisticated. The queen smokes cigarets; the King of Wallachia abuses his wife, as does Lord Trench in The High Road; the actor, played well by Ian...