Word: tender
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said the Washington Post in commenting on this sharp questioning of veracity in high places: "Whether Mr. Haney is right or wrong in his attitude toward Admiral Palmer, he is palpably and indefensibly wrong in adopting a recalcitrant attitude toward President Coolidge. He should tender his resignation forthwith, and leave the responsibility for directing both the Shipping Board and the Emergency Fleet Corporation to the President. If there is one principle that is thoroughly established in this government, it is the principle of the President's responsibility for the conduct of executive affairs...
Reported Engaged. Ileana, 16, "prettiest daughter of Queen Marie of Rumania and King Ferdinand," to the Duke of Apulia, 26, distant kinsman of King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy. Ileana's less handsome sisters are respectively Elisabeth, exiled Greek Queen and Marie, YugoSlavian Queen. Princess Ileana, although tender in years has already, according to reports, been about to wed the Prince of Wales and King Boris of Bulgaria...
...Spanish shawl, she sang an unaccomplished Spanish love. With eyes, mouth, chin, fingers, feet, she told the story of her song. Then a last tender note half-unsung, she stopped, plucked a flower from her dress, swung across the footlights made as if to throw it to some paunchy fellow, and did not. So everybody laughed after their tears, and Raquel flitted backstage under cover of thunderous applause...
...fine May morning in 1915, the German submarine U-20, cruising off the Irish coast released a. slender steel projectile into the chill Atlantic. The projectile coursed onward like a speeding shark, nestled against a tender leviathan, and the Lusitania went to the bottom...
Spring Fever. The first production in many weeks that has not been definitely distressing moved in last week to tell a tale of golf and tender passions. I: is true that the latter toughened up a trifle in the final act when Mr. A. H. Woods pulled one of his laciest beds out of storage and gave the public what he found it wanted long ago. The scene was often in bad taste and quite irrelevant to the rest. Like the rest, however, it loosed a light supply of laughter...