Word: avuncularly
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...present ruling house, who was the great-great-grandfather of both Elizabeth and Philip. Victoria, eager for the whole world to adore her husband as she did, was all for having the people crown Albert King right at the start. "For God's sake, Ma'am," her avuncular Prime Minister Lord Melbourne cried out at the idea, "if you get the English people into the way of making Kings, you will get them into the way of unmaking them...
Help for Helpmeets. Under Bishop Hubble's avuncular eye, readers' outpourings are efficiently dissected by a 48-man journalistic rescue squad which includes a full-time lawyer, four experts who handle nothing but housing questions, four others who deal only in installment-buying problems, two marital-relations counselors, a specialist in servicemen's affairs. On call are two Harley Street physicians who are retained to advise readers with medical ills to see their doctors...
...Catholic Marquette; he was ushered respectfully into the sickroom of the President-the first distinguished visitor since the operation; he was applauded in the streets of Washington, New Haven, New York, Chicag Milwaukee. Everywhere Konrad Adenauer bestowed upon his hosts a tried and towering good will, a sage and avuncular counsel...
Perles was working for the Paris edition of the Chicago Tribune when the conjunction took place. With all the avuncular patronage of Dr. Johnson being kind for once to Boswell, Miller says kind things of the first meeting with "my good friend Alf." But like Boswell's initial confrontation with Johnson, it was not a success. "There was no click," Perles confesses sadly. Yet, "was I already under the spell of that personality which was later to manifest itself in his epoch-making books?" Two years later the question was answered. He was-even though Miller "talked through...
After nearly three weeks in Great Britain, roly-poly Georgy Malenkov, the visitor from Russia, was getting to be almost like one of the family. Journeying northward from London, he stopped in at Lancashire's teeming seaside Blackpool, smiled amiably avuncular smiles right and left among the crowds of vacationing Britons, and gave a honeymooning bride a box of chocolates. Offering a stick of rock candy to three-year-old Richard Davies, 54-year-old Georgy said: "I have a grandson of this age. His name is Peter. This is for peace between Peter and Richard...