Word: endearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thomas of Madison, Wis., did not endear himself to little boys when he said: "The traditional school year with a summer vacation of ten weeks or more is . . . a manifest absurdity in the city...
...think a section devoted to that all-important subject would endear your magazine to many more readers of the fair sex and give them a service they should like to have from your magazine...
...realize that this literary effort will not particularly endear me to anyone on the Board, but I do believe that Lampy should demand a higher degree of draughtmanship in his published drawings and I have seen vastly more humorous Lampoon literature than in the current issue...
...editor hopes to live here until he is the old editor, until some of the visions which rise before him as he dreams shall, have come true. He hopes always to sign 'from Emporia' after his name when he is abroad, and he trusts that he may endear himself to the people, that they will be as proud of the first words of the signature as he is of the last words. He expects to perform all the kind offices of the country editor in this community for a generation to come...
General Degoutte is a hero to the French. His War record and the stern efficiency of his rule in occupied Germany as Generalissimo of the Franco-Belgian troops combined to endear him to French hearts. In Germany, however, he was one of the best hated men among the hated "invaders...