Word: affectionate
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The best answer came from Eton's headmaster, Robert Birley, who traced the words back to Montalembert's De l'Avenir Politique de I'Angleterre, published in 1855. According to Count Montalembert, the Duke of Wellington, returning to Eton in his old age, exclaimed: "It is...
This week General Mills, still keeping Mrs. McGuire's slogan to itself, will announce that she has won the top prize: $25,000. General Mills' President Leslie N. Perrin and Merrill Lynch's Managing Partner Winthrop Smith are flying to High Shoals to give Mrs. McGuire her...
Publishers and booksellers talk like patrons of literature, but the hard facts of life make them behave like ordinary businessmen. Crowded into a corner, they reluctantly admit that 'first-rate creative writing makes for risky publishing ventures, that to remain solvent they must stay off Parnassus and scurry about...
Baudouin's personal problem: to win the heart and support of his people. He has already inspired their loyalty and a certain affection. Among the crowds that jammed the streets at the end of his big day last week, a motherly Belgian woman watched the new King pass behind...
Laurens had waited a long time for such cheers. The son of a Parisian day laborer, he apprenticed himself to a stone carver at 14, attended free sculpture classes in public night school. Before World War I, he took a studio in Montmartre, began hobnobbing with Paris' artist-revolutionaries...