Word: affectionate
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After studying Pepys for eight years, his "admiration for the man has grown into something very like affection." For Librarian Turner, publishing Pepys's secrets would be like betraying the confidences of an intimate friend.
After reciting his long affection for Georgia and his calling of a conference of Southerners to study the South as "the nation's No. 1 economic problem'' (TIME, July 18), Franklin Roosevelt said: "If the people of the State of Georgia want definite action . . . they must send...
With U. S. sympathy for China running as high as it has, it is remarkable, wrote Mme Chiang in a recent letter, that so little money has been subscribed for China's relief. Ten million dollars was raised for Japanese earthquake sufferers within a month after the disaster in...
In two ways last week Cuba showed her present glowing affection for the U. S. of Good Neighbor Franklin D. Roosevelt. Signed by President Federico Laredo Bru was a bill making July 4 an official holiday for all commercial, industrial, governmental activity. Moved in the Cuban Senate by Liberal Senator...
...President: Scripps-Howard's mussy, curly-headed Columnist Heywood Broun. Hunched over a table like a rising half moon, Chairman Broun always sits when he presides over Guild conventions. After five conventions, Sitting Broun remains a good-natured, efficient chairman. Last week he was reelected by affectionate acclamation, but with little affection Executive Vice-President Jonathan Eddy was re-elected after two ballots...