Word: affectionate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"My mother," said Oscar Wilde later, "loved him very much, and [he] died with his heart full of gratitude and affection." Says Dr. Wilson: he had "only two faults-his bad temper and his mistresses."
Wrote he: "I hope LaFollette is successful. ... In the long run he will be closer to me than Morse [Oregon's vocally liberal Senator Wayne Morse]." Then he indicated that there was more to his sudden affection for LaFollette, and to Coleman's frenzied opposition to him, than...
When she was ten years old her father, having done his royal duty, died, and Wilhelmina became Queen of The Netherlands. She had a lonely time of it. Denied the companionship of other children, she lavished affection and attention on her dolls-scolded them, pampered them, admonished them that "if...
...about those days, Drums is at bottom sentimental and romantic, but the resemblance to the standard stops about there. O'Casey is no standard Irishman; he lives in England, is a Communist,* obviously has no great affection for the powers at Maynooth or Dublin Castle. But he remembers affectionately the Ireland of his young days, though even then he was often dead set against it. With many a "saucy, fine, pene-thratin' phrase," he recalls his own worries and wonderings, the stirrings almost everywhere, the "gospel of discontent smoking faintly in the hearts of most...
When Buffalo-born Norm Anthony went to New York as a free-lance cartoonist at 21, he loved the place "at first sight; I've been faithful to it ever since." He was somewhat less faithful in other respects ("I'm the poor man's Tommy Manville...