Word: affectionateness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was not much to explain, really. On April 30, when he had asked to be relieved, his normal five-year tenure would still have three months to run. (The newsmen had heard the rumor that the Duke wanted to leave then because the Duchess could not stand the heat...
Like Israel Putnam, George Custer and Teddy Roosevelt of the Rough Riders, loud, swashbuckling, profane Lieut. General George Smith Patton Jr. is the kind of soldier who makes legend as spontaneously as he inspires the fierce and prideful affection of his men. Last week another chapter, possibly apocryphal, was added...
"This camp," observes Dr. Busch in the Mydans novel, "is no place for personal dignity. The humiliating lack of privacy was the worst: "Two hundred peoper having ten rooms," the Jap officer had shouted. "Radies having one room. . . ." The Jap commandant even banned hand-holding ("He said such displays of...
William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, longtime mayor and boss of Chicago, who died last March leaving some $2,000,000 in safe deposit boxes but no will (TIME, April 10), made news again when $250,000 of the money changed hands in an out-of-court settlement. The quarter-million...
Before long, softhearted Joe E. was so overcome with affection for "the kids" that he scarcely had a dry-eyed moment.