Word: affectionate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mary Haworth has savvy, writes wrathfully and well; her column answers serious questions (not all about sex problems) painstakingly, often falling back on dictionary definitions of misused words: "love" - "tender and passionate affection."
In '98, he went to Cuba with the Negro loth Cavalry. Lieut. Pershing was 38. He was almost 40 when he was sent to the Philippines and won his captaincy. He was a tough man and a hard disciplinarian, though he had a sentimental affection for his calling. He...
In 1928 in G. K.'s Weekly, Chesterton summed up his view of modern man: "There is a sense in which men may be made normally happy; but there is another sense in which we may truly say, without undue paradox, that what they want is to get back...
Infantryman. Mark Clark loves the infantry. To him it is literally the "Queen of Battles." The affection began all of the General's 47 years ago. For he was born in an infantry camp, so to speak: at Madison Barracks, in upstate New York, a post near which onetime...
For this bluff treatment of the women who pay $37.75 and up for a hat, Ben is rewarded with fawning affection. Last Easter 22 of his clients were so grateful that they threw a surprise cocktail party for him in his shop, complete with hors d'oeuvres from his...