Word: kindheartedness
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Denmark's rage at this "impudence" was not softened by the fact that Denmark had ruled Greenland philanthropically at a loss. It could easily have made it pay but it has shut out all foreign immigration except for some 300 Danish cryolite miners. Its policy is to keep Greenland...
¶ Authoress Vicki Baum, whose dramatized Grand Hotel has made a hit on Broadway, tells a light-heartedly lubricous tale of an Adonisian swimming instructor and the damage he did at a German summer resort. Martin was a serious-minded young man (he had invented a paper substitute for cinema...
"So long as I remain in power," said Prime Minister Stauning in Copenhagen, Denmark last week, "Greenland will not be 'opened up.' I see no reason to start experimenting with these kindhearted, trusting, aboriginal people. The Eskimo thrives under our present system."
From August he learned many useful facts, many ornamental dodges. August had been everywhere, done everything and everybody; but when he was in a tight place was apt to confess himself a miserable and not quite bright sinner. From failure and success he made equally quick recoveries. Edevart and he...
Ashenden was a boy when he first met Drimeld, then a struggling author, and Rosie, his beautiful barmaid wife. When the Driffields "shot the moon" (left town without paying their debts J, Ashenden thought he would never see them again. But years later, while a medical student in London, he...