Word: tender
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...threatened Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt just when her bank balance was beginning to fatten on the proceeds of her series of newspaper articles on "The Inside of Prohibition" (TIME,, Aug. 12 et seq.). In an instalment which flayed the meddlesomeness of the Anti-Saloon League, she trod on the tender toe of a onetime Prohibition enforcement chief at St. Louis...
...Significance. Like the Booth Tarkington of Penrod, Arthur Thiess is sensitive to the dreams and growth of boys and girls. Unlike the U. S. author, Frank Thiess probes deeply, uncovers with tender hand, like a rose-lover, their straining growth...
...profit. By means of a new quick-freezing process, fresh meats have been put on the market in the packaged and branded form long associated only with cured meats (ham, bacon). Thus the U. S. housewife may now telephone her butcher, order Swift pork chops, lamb chops, and pork tender loins, all neatly wrapped in parchment or cellophane, trimmed, ready to cook. Soon available will be sliced calf liver and beef liver, and packaged legs and shoulder of lamb. Eventually planned are frozen beef steaks, roasts, etc. Most extraordinary of all will be a forthcoming packaged lamb stew, consisting...
...years. It is always a case of how things were ten years ago. But I should like to remind you that only eight years ago, thanks to the terms imposed upon Germany at Versailles, the total shipping carrying the flag of the North German Lloyd was exactly one tender, a tender scarcely big enough to convey the baggage now aboard our new Bremen...
...like any playwright with broad genius, Molnar is interested in and can handle all manner of people?slaveys, socialites, policemen, princes?not for what they stand for but as kinds of people underneath. For the proud of this world he has a pathos of precision, for the humble, a tender irony, ridicule softened by tears. His many-mooded plays abound in what actors call "fat parts"?character-full roles, with unique "business...