Word: affectionateness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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For nearly two thousand years, since the Romans first drove them into exile, Jews, wherever they were, dreamed wistfully of a return to Palestine, waited for the Messiah who was to lead them back. But by one of history's ironies it was not the religious fervor of Judaism...
"There is no mortal marriage," said the groom, "in the kingdom that I mean united as one family and as one nation indivisible. I mean that this is not a matter of a sample for everybody. . . . But those that are living according to my teaching, they are redeemed from self...
¶"All my life affection has been showered on me, and every forward step I took has been taken in spite of it."
Daughter of the late, famed Harvard economist, Helen Taussig was a Radcliffe tennis champion, still eats and swims heartily, lavishes her affection on a large, undisciplined mongrel named Spot. She took over the Johns Hopkins Children's Heart Clinic in 1930, is so deeply absorbed in her work that...
When Robert Montgomery played the megalomaniac in the movies some ten years ago, he established a role that summer stock stars have been trying to emulate ever since. The latest attempt, by Walter Starkey, is unfortunate. His portrayal of a murderer is convincing enough, but it is a job unfinished...