Word: avuncularly
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...also changed his old tune of avuncular indignation against both of China's warring factions. "The civil war has spread and increased in intensity. The Chinese Communists by force of arms seek control of wide areas of China. The U.S. and all other world powers recognize the National Government as the sole legal government of China. . . . We should extend to the Government and its people certain economic aid and assistance. A definite proposal is under preparation...
...spite of such showmanship, the Radio Doctor enjoys high standing in his profession; a B.M.A. colleague admits that no physician in the country has done more for preventive medicine than Dr. Hill and his avuncular broadcasts. Dr. Hill himself has a simple explanation for his huge popularity: his talks are based on the solid truism that people are more interested in disease than in health. Says he: "If I want to discuss the circulation, I start by mentioning varicose veins. I know then that I'll have the sympathetic ear of most...
...picked her over 1,000 applicants.* Flossy herself has few doubts that she will be a wow. Almost since the day when, at 14, she came out of Allendale, N. J. and into the public eye as a Powers model, her career has been steered by an indulgent, avuncular "board of directors": John Robert Powers, Columnist Walter Winchell, Publicist Steve Hannagan, Cinemogul Robert Goldstein, Singer Morton Downey. "They're wonderful," she says. "I couldn't move without their advice." The board thinks she's rather wonderful, too. Says Powers: ". . .A modern version of Lady Hamilton and Pompadour...
...Loon left this fragment of an autobiography. He began it, he said, partly as a response to letters from servicemen who wanted a plain account of "what this world is all about." Readers may get a few of Van Loon's notions on that subject in the avuncular Van Loon style (history as kiddy talk), but they will learn from this autobiography very little about Van Loon. It appears to have been designed for a leisurely, Montaignesque 700 pages and unfortunately ends just when it begins to warm the heart...