Word: affectionateness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Maudlin affection nourished: tall, hulking Fernando Ortiz Rubio threw himself on Governor Zárate's neck, kissed his hand, blubbered: "You have been a real father to me." Then the conversation turned to futurismo. In Mexico futurismo is no esoteric art-cult; it is the highly practical question...
An eleventh-hour canvass of the local merchants revealed this stampede, at the same time unveiling the Harvard man's gift-sending eccentricities. According to the Boylston Street telegraph office, Yardlings and upperclassmen, during the past week, have been deluging every corner of the country with messages of filial affection...
Looy, dot Dope was the nickname, borrowed from Milt Gross, which Lewis Brereton's Army chums pinned on him years ago. It was a mark of affection and respect. Brereton, from the start of his Army career, was dopey like a tiger.
Now U.S. newcomers in India see Sikhs in tanks and pursuit planes, Gurkhas driving armored cars. But any soldier with General Brereton's penetrating eye is bound to spot a flaw. Due partly to circumstances, including the necessary drain on Indian manpower and equipment for other theaters, the Indian...
>M. Panache was a floor walker. Like his crony, The Navet, he was generally detested (all the conservatives in The Last Time I Saw Paris are detestable). "To keep M. Panache in a perpetual hell of suspicion and rage," the chestnut vendor kept whispering to him that the proprietor of...