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...dream caress of a silken dress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: The Bride's Lament | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

...looked at the globe another way-if, for example, Germany had upset the balance of power in Europe, or Japan upset the balance of power in Asia, and these two powers joined forces-the Old World encircled the New. In this geopolitical embrace, the New World might suffer a "caress of death." So he wrote this provocative and controversial book to tell his compatriots why they must be ready at all times to fight to preserve the balance of power in Europe and Asia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Geography is Fate? | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

Names are funny, too. Juliet does some speculating about where-fore Romeo is Romeo and not Caspar Milquetoast or some other moniker that would rid the young pigeons of the family barriers between them. And the tone of her voice--that tender caress of a voice, instinct with primal passion and heart-throb and love--gives a musical quality and dramatic force that's been associated with it ever since. If you said to us "Romeo" and we replied "Romeyback" that would be that. But when Juliet, atop the rose-kirtled balcony, breathes out on the sweet smelling evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/25/1937 | See Source »

...Nightmares half the night from sampling B---'s wretched cheese. In one dream I am driving with my love when, as I turn to caress her cheek, a tree looms up and smashes us hard. My love into thin air, and I, dazed, behind the wheel. The car falls apart, and I find myself stretched upon the ground. Some one rolls me over and says I am dead, which I want to deny but can't. So I think I must be dead too. An ambulance whisks my body to the morgue, where I am laid on a cold slab...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...wish I had someone to love me, Someone to call me her own; Someone to kiss and caress me: I'm tired of living alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 19, 1936 | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

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