Word: affectionate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although Magic Town is not worked out with much acuteness or grace, it views with a wholesome if very mild disapproval: 1) the overwillingness of many Americans to play guinea pig with their private lives; 2) their ugly and pathetic capacity for materialistic vanity; and 3) the ease with which...
Lamb & Lectures. In a quarter-century as A.U.B.'s president, Bayard Dodge has done more than any other single American to win and keep good will for the U.S. in the Near East. The friend and teacher of sheiks, princes and prime ministers, he knows how to eat rice...
This week, as the Dodgers raced toward the finish seven games ahead, it was at least arguable that Jackie Robinson had furnished the margin of victory. The Dodgers are certainly not a one-man ball club. They have a bull-necked powerhouse of a catcher named Bruce Edwards, 24, whose...
Miss Robertson, in charge of the playground, found, like others before her, that the children got far more affection than those of small upper-class families. But it was casual affection; at the end of hot summer days-so Miss Robertson was told-the police could always pick up a...
Some of the State's representatives are kind and well meaning, but they are hardly more helpful than the brutes, the prigs, the fools and the merely indifferent. The boys are locked in separate cells and come under new influences. Pasquale is tricked into informing; neither boy ever quite...