Word: tenderable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although his claim that he traversed more of the intercontinental land route than any of his predecessors still needs official corroboration, the Standard Oil Co. of N. J. which supplied most of his gas and oil, was delighted to tender him a banquet. Obligingly, he unscrewed a light bulb from the chandelier, smashed it to bits, put the glass in his mouth, took a draught of water. Of the hardships suffered by him and his late companions, he said piously, "I knew we would not all die because at the mountain top I laid my hands on the feet...
...epoch" was added when Tony gave Mabel Dodge a dose of the Mexican drug peyote as a cure for dysentery. Awake all night, a clairvoyant vision showed her that "all this learning in the brain, and never in the blood was ended." In this mood even Maurice provoked "a tender, soft, sorry feeling"-though she did not relax her determination to kick him out. To make his going easier (for herself), she and Tony absented themselves at a Corn Dance. On their return Tony said, "I comin' here to this tepee tonight, when darkness here. That be right...
...wash out his ears and flick flies from his withers. Congo immediately took to Dr. Blair, who three times a day fed him bananas, cabbages, carrots, sweet potatoes, condensed milk. Except for three rough days, Congo took his food with relish. Normally okapis are browsers. They eat tender shoots from the tops of shrubs and trees...
...last week several score plump, giggling ladies of a certain age risked their lives riding across the ruffled waters of Chesapeake Bay aboard a small tender. The Senate Ladies Club and a collection of wives of the Cabinet and of ex-officials (among them Widow Woodrow Wilson), were off on a jaunt to that sanctum of male Democratic leisure, the Jefferson Islands Club some 20 miles southeast of Annapolis. They had a look through the rambling clubhouse, traipsed over the 34-acre island on which it stands and viewed the Club's 136-acre duck-hunting preserve. After...
...never amount to much. His mother, who tucked him into bed until his marriage at 33, was the first woman to spoil him; of the others, he remembered back to the ''fair ladies" who, while he was still in his cradle, aroused his "precocious sensuality" with their tender duckings. At kindergarten age he acquired his "abiding penchant for actresses" when Actress Rachel patted him on the head. In clerical college he smarted, did little studying, because the main honors went automatically to sons of the nobility. Smarting ever after, as an old man he let loose against...