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Word: affectionateness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The recipient of this gratitude, affection, and inspiration eased down into a chair in St. Clair's, with the summary, "It was rather frightening."

Author: By Palmer R. Omalley, | Title: 900 Crowd Into New Lecture Hall To Hear Auden Recite Own Poetry | 3/15/1946 | See Source »

To a colleague who chided him in the same vein, Morris Cohen had an equally acid answer: "The students are getting information from all of the other teachers. What would you think of a plumbing system with all faucets and no outlets?" It was small wonder that Professor Cohen often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Cleaner of Stables | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

Edith's adoptive parents were Matthew Pierre, an ornithologist, and his wife Valerie, a horticulturist. Their home, "Wildwood," was a warbling, fragrant inferno of prize flowers and bird-feeding stations, surrounded by a rusty iron fence. Matthew was a cold-souled, pipe-fondling dispenser of gently eviscerating irony. Valerie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Slow Death | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

Post-morteming big-leaguers explained their sudden affection for the Commissioner: you don't hire a doctor to tell you what to do, and then not do it.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Happy Again | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

Robert Turney's drama shows how Leda Ferroni, the refugee, is led to murder and finally to total insanity in her unscrupulous struggle to keep her past a secret and to make her future happy. The key to this happiness is the possession of a baby, but psychologically Ferroni is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 10/26/1945 | See Source »

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