Word: tender
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...happens to find it alone and unprotected in the icebox - but things of this sort are, to Pollyanna, merely added reasons for finding something to be "glad" about. Even when the War comes and Jimmy must leave for Plattsburg, does she weep? Certainly not! She strokes his hair, "murmurs tender comforting things," sews his buttons on, sends him away with a smile...
Despatches said that Mr. Marsh with the three Indians would reach Manhattan early in July. One of the three is a girl of 16 "with hazel blue eyes, white, tender skin and wavy golden hair which Mr. Marsh has had bobbed." The others are boys. Mr. Marsh has dressed them all in "civilized clothes...
...That the British Minister tender an apology to the Chinese for his action in refusing for several 'days to surrender the Chinese soldier to the Chinese authorities, which is a grave insult to China...
...takes a remarkable crew to row the race Yale rowed," he said, "and I tender my hearty congratulations. It is a wonderful testimony to Coach Leader's ability...
...seems to have been only very slightly afflicted in this way himself. In fact, his searing, caustic criticism of the public press does much to shake one's youthful confidence in a romantic, Richard-Harding-Davis like of which all members are gentlemen, all editors outwardly cytrlcal but inwardly tender and human, all owners impressive and domineering but quick to discern loyalty and ability in their devoted neophytes...