Word: affectionate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In September 1933, David Lamson's first trial was concluded at San Jose. The State of California contended that Lamson's motives for killing his wife were his affection for a Sacramento divorcee and his wife's repulsion of his amatory advances, that he wilfully killed her...
The mixture of metaphor is intended to indicate that the Guild's most recent offspring is a problem child who shows an upsetting complexity of behavior. Perhaps because he felt that Miss Claire is in danger of becoming stereotyped, Mr. Behrman has apparently sought to make his work more than...
Again last week new King Edward emphasized his pro-German leanings. At a great reception in Buckingham Palace to representatives of all nations, His Majesty kept the line of notables moving briskly past his receiving dais until German Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath's turn came. Then the...
What the Department of Justice last week announced as a "major victory" in a war against natural gas monopolies encouraged the "monopoly" in question to invest $8,000,000 in the construction of a 300-mile pipe line to Detroit. Target of the U. S. Government was Columbia Gas & Electric...
Oliver's second rebuff is deeper and more poignant. Since his boyhood he has felt a strong affection for Rose Darnley, younger sister of his father's old companion, a graceful, sensitive girl whose temperament is somewhat like his own. During the War, when Oliver is certain that...