Word: affectionate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"The gentlemen have demanded that I explain to you the meaning of the blue ensemble and red necktie. Well, perhaps that might be taken as reflecting a view as to the relative importance of networks, or it might simply be out of sheer loyalty and affection for the Navy and...
> To judge by "scores of middle-aged patients dying from all sorts of diseases," arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) is very rare. So is angina pectoris (heart attack) which is often caused by arteriosclerosis. The rarity of these diseases, said Dr. Snapper, "is the more striking because the increase of...
"Inness represented the deep religious affection of men of his time for American nature," he explained. "Then after 1900, interest shifted to the rough vigor of the city under the 'Ash Can School.' Today Thomas Benton has broadened out to portray all phases of our life in his murals, whose...
Nobody controls President Quezon, not even Quezon, say the Filipinos. They know. Sometimes they say it with exasperated affection, like Brooklyn people talking about the Dodgers. Sometimes they say it with gleeful malice, as they recount President Quezon's latest prankish maneuver against austere, high-minded Francis Sayre, U.S...
Last week the poor man of Chile, his affection for Pedro Aguirre Cerda even stronger than it was two years ago, mourned his "muy buen hombre." For two days the body of Pedro Aguirre Cerda lay in state in the Hall of Honor of Santiago's Congress Building. From...