Word: affectionateness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chicago's new superintendent of schools is a genial Rotarian with a glad hand and a quick mind, who has run Kansas City's schools for the past seven years. He also heads the American Association of School Administrators. A preacher at heart, Episcopalian Herold Hunt likes to...
For Naples and the Neapolitans Burns, as commentator, has enormous affection. At the least, it seems, they taught him how to live and how to love. His deepest resentment is reserved for those U.S. soldiers who failed to learn as much. The Italians, he writes, "were our enemies. Yet in...
There were greetings from Fans Tallulah Bankhead, Billie Burke and Henry Ford II, and among the guests was Edgar Guest himself, who leaned over Anne's armful of roses, bussed her soundly and said to the audience: "There is no one for whom I have greater affection."
Last week he sang. Some 1,100 people turned out to hear him. The songs were nonpolitical. So was the applause. At the end, Robeson made a nonpolitical speech: "I shall remember this with great warmth and affection."
"As soon as they clear out," he asserted, "there will be an immediate feeling of intense hostility towards them," but he indicated that after a year or so it would probably die out, and that then "a good deal of affection" may grow up between the two peoples.