Word: affectionate
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At the Stork Club, in Paris, on the Riviera and in London's West End, everybody who was anybody knew Freddy McEvoy. Born to obscurity, the tall, handsome, 44-year-old Australian had the gift of making friends, news, money, and marrying heiresses. His feats of derring-do on...
Died. Christian Gauss, 73, author, teacher and scholar, who as a wise and witty dean (1925-45) and professor of languages and literature (1905-45) helped bring up three generations of Princeton men; of a heart attack; in Pennsylvania Station, Manhattan. At 20, he left his native Michigan for a...
Moravia's little bully grew up in a broken home; his mother neglected him one day and besieged him with affection the next. Marcello diverted himself by killing animals. "It was from cruelty that he derived the only pleasures that did not seem . . . insipid." At 13, he suffered an...
Some might suggest that this newspaper could quell such exploits by denying them publicity; but that cannot be our role. We have a duty to our readers to report the news. Moreover, despite our real sympathy for Lampy, we prefer not to pass judgement on the abductors of the Ibis...
God's children, his book admonished, must "use this world and all the comforts of it with a weaned eye and minds, as if we used it not ... as English travelers that lodge in an Indian house use all the wild Indian's comforts with a strange affection...