Word: affectionate
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MacLeish, poet, former curator of the Nieman Fellowships, Librarian of Congress, and Assistant Secretary" of State, still thinks of his Law School days as an "exciting experience." Like most men, he has affection for the undergraduate college he a attended, but MacLeish feels his days at Harvard Law had much...
Thus the Eli students showered their affection on a man who has accused them for years of being infected with "the Yale virus of license, lethargy, and bigotry."
Maid service at Harvard is an institution as old as the University itself. Through the years the cleaning women with the whimsical brooms have been called "sweeps," "goodies," and more recently "biddies." The latest term of affection is just plain "maids"--those who value their cleaning service dare use no...
The long series of novels he put out before the war lampooning the gay young set of England was shot through with affection for what he was supposedly lacerating. All the people in these early novels are delightfully eccentric, delightfully amoral, delightfully loose in the head. They are so delightful...
Q.E.D. In Washington, D.C., Judge Richmond B. Keech ruled that William Tendrich was entitled to a divorce because his wife allegedly sprinkled Paris green over the dinner table: "The defendant has shown . . . that she has no affection or respect for the plaintiff."