Word: affectionate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The recipient of this gratitude, affection, and inspiration eased down into a chair in St. Clair's, with the summary, "It was rather frightening."
To a colleague who chided him in the same vein, Morris Cohen had an equally acid answer: "The students are getting information from all of the other teachers. What would you think of a plumbing system with all faucets and no outlets?" It was small wonder that Professor Cohen often...
Edith's adoptive parents were Matthew Pierre, an ornithologist, and his wife Valerie, a horticulturist. Their home, "Wildwood," was a warbling, fragrant inferno of prize flowers and bird-feeding stations, surrounded by a rusty iron fence. Matthew was a cold-souled, pipe-fondling dispenser of gently eviscerating irony. Valerie...
Post-morteming big-leaguers explained their sudden affection for the Commissioner: you don't hire a doctor to tell you what to do, and then not do it.
Robert Turney's drama shows how Leda Ferroni, the refugee, is led to murder and finally to total insanity in her unscrupulous struggle to keep her past a secret and to make her future happy. The key to this happiness is the possession of a baby, but psychologically Ferroni is...