Word: affectionate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well-reared girl Meshie brushes her teeth and showers when she gets up. Then she eats a morning breakfast of bananas & cream, using a spoon and holding the tin dish between her leg-paws. For luncheon and dinner she prefers veal, chicken, steak, refuses lamb, pork or fish. Affectionate, she likes to pick choice bits from her dish, offer them to Dr. Raven. Nights she sleeps in a cage. Her daily chore is to help with the sweeping. Meshie lavishes her greatest affection on Mary, aged 2. Until lately, when Meshie's strength became dangerous, she played with Mary...
When Mrs. Whitney took the stand, she was seen to be fingering several small prayer books. Because Mrs. Whitney is an Episcopalian and Mrs. Vanderbilt a Roman Catholic, the question of Gloria's religious training became a major point at issue. But so criss-crossed were the ties of...
Occasion was the G. O. P. lunch which Massachusetts' earnest, broad-beamed Congressman Allen Towner Treadway gives before every biennial election. Mrs. Coolidge affirmed her affection for the State her husband loved, declared it had always found Republican administrations sound, nonpartisan, just. Said she:
Founders' Day Speaker at Wheaton College, Norton, Mass. was Author William Rose Benét. His subject: Poetess Elinor Wylie, his late fragile wife, who composed whole poems without pencil or paper and died in 1928 from the effects of falling downstairs. Declared Mr. Benét: "No photograph...
In the Lubitsch version, Captain Danilo (Maurice Chevalier) is dispatched from Marshovia to Paris to marry his country's richest widow (Jeanette MacDonald) lest she impoverish the royal treasury by marrying a foreigner. He goes to Maxim's for a farewell debauch, makes love to a cocotte who...