Word: tender
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lock Haven, Pa., last week, 20 Pennsylvania State College freshmen sat in the refectory of their forestry department camp. They were fed up with the lore of weird foods. Horse meat is paler than that of cattle, and sweet. Dog steaks are as tender as lamb chops, but taste flat. Frog legs are like the white part of chicken, would be appetizing save for the dead look of the bones. Rat flesh is like that of tame rabbits. Snails fried alive in butter have a quaint taste. They are tough to chew. Human flesh, when the source is not known...
...pressmen he explained his note. Yes, he wore makeup. His profession made it necessary. Did he wear bracelets? For reply he held up his wrist, and the golden bands tinkled their momentary music. Sentiment, he said, had sealed their clasps. He would never take them off. "Here, in tender reverie," wrote the star cor- respondent of a moving picture magazine, "Mr. Valentino bent his head. . . ." Discussing the editorial, the head was erect, the reverie was not tender...
GYPSY DOWN THE LANE-Thames Williamson-Small, Maynard (2.50). "The gypsy watches sky and earth, and both are lately swiftly changing. The heavens are day by day more tender, the air more soft-sweeter, my people. For a week the wind has ridden from the south, and with it the note of the bluebird, which is the note of springtime...
Bertrand Russell (1872-) is a courageous English mathematician who, though disillusioned about communism after visiting Russia, retains a tender mysticism even in his most tough-minded logic. His faith in mankind extends to all races. His concern lately has been with elementary pedagogy* but he may be watched for something serene in the next decade. Four U. S. philosophers remain...
...that count. The concensus of masculine opinion, which after all is the only worth while opinion in these matters and which was garnered during our progress from the theatre, was that she is extremely good to look upon, effective in the clinches, but a little weak on the tender scenes...