Word: affectionate
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At several parties she met Harry Frank Guggenheim, former ambassador to Cuba, mining and minerals heir and head of two of his family's multi-million-dollar foundations. Although her father had still not forgiven her for divorcing Brooks, and had no affection for Harry Guggenheim, she married him...
The gentle smile that flickered over Hirohito's bespectacled face gave no indication that he was anything but pleased at the democratic display. The celestial mystique that Japan's U.S. -dictated Constitution sought to destroy had been replaced by a new mystique; Hirohito's 18-day tour...
When the chips were down, four nations sided with the German Chancellor against the French Premier. Here was dramatic evidence of a reluctant shift that has already begun-a shift in the values assigned by habit, prejudice and affection to the various members of the coalition.
Nobuko, the lady of beauty, is fortyish, and lives in a fine villa by the sea near Tokyo. She is married to a wealthy financier, and possessively loves her young and only son. True, she must share her husband's affection with a common geisha in Tokyo, but she...
Claretta Petacci was the exception to the general rule. Mussolini made love to her in his usual perfunctory way ("He doesn't even take his boots off," she once complained), but he showed his affection by installing her in his private apartments a few steps away from his office...