Word: filial
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Those years were not uniformly dreary. They were warmed by the half-filial, half-erotic friendship of many young men, notably the young Irish streetcar conductor, Peter Doyle. They were cheered by the startling letters of Mrs. Anne Gilchrist. She had read the Leaves and wrote their author: "Nothing in life or death can tear out of my heart the passionate belief that one day I shall hear that voice say to me, 'My mate. The one I so much want. Bride, wife, indissoluble, eternal.' ... O come, come, my darling, look into these eyes and see the long...
...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. However, the war has put an end to the Mother's Day worldwide telegraphing exploits carried on in pre-war years, which penetrated as far as Africa, India, and China...
...bamboo-shaded hills, where he rested his injured back after he was kidnapped by the Communists and "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang in 1936, to its streets, which he widened out of his own pocket, to its school, which he built, to its graveyard, which he regards with proper filial devotion, since his mother is buried there...
...reputation, Papa Hiler treated his late entrance into the art world with good-natured deprecation. Said he: "There is no message in my pictures. . . . No one ever taught me anything about painting. I never had any intention of becoming an artist." But Son Hilaire was bursting with filial pride. "I know enough about painting," said he, "to know he doesn't know a damn thing about it. If I gave him a single lesson he would be terrible. He's one of the few real primitives. I know he's no fake, as some so-called primitives...
...fled to Europe. You Can't Go Home Again resumes this unsatisfactory affair after George's return. But the novel is only incidentally about George and Esther. It is about: 1) the publication of George's first novel, Home to Our Mountains; 2) George's filial literary relationship with his editor, Foxhall Edwards (in real life Scribner's book-wise Maxwell Perkins); 3) the scandal which George's novel caused in Libya Hill and the anguish this caused George; 4) the real-estate boom and moral deterioration of Libya Hill, and the town...