Word: tenderable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said: "Cleverness and adroitness in dealing with the Supreme Court are not qualities which sober-minded citizens will approve." Said a Scripps-Howard editorial writer: "Though not as crude as President Grant's coup adding two members to the high bench to win majority approval of his legal tender law, Mr. Roosevelt's proposal, in its political sense, is designed to achieve the same end. And because that purpose sticks out like a sore thumb, the President must accept much of the responsibility for returning the controversy to the realm of emotion...
...Republican Congress and President settled the Court at its present size under circumstances highly suggestive of packing. Up for Court decision were the Legal Tender Acts involving the issue of Civil War greenbacks. Resignation had made one vacancy on the Court: Congress had year before created another. On the very day the Court handed down a 4-to-3 decision against the greenbacks, President Grant filled the two vacancies. On rehearing, the greenbacks were upheld...
According to the Museum the work "is among the finest examples of that tender, flowing, calligraphic style that flourished in Germany from about 1380 to 1450, a style which is little known in America, and is not at all represented by original works in any of the local museums." Money for the purchase of the Gothic Madonna was donated by a group of friends of the Germanic Museum...
...northern shrimps are tender and delicious when cooked., and, at least to this prejudiced writer, quite as good as lobsters if not actually better. They average from five to eight inches long when market-sized. They are bright red in color, differing in this respect from the southern shrimps which are green, and generally live on muddy bottom in depths of 60 to 100 fathoms. That is not an easy place for small boats to reach with their limited gear. Fortunately the shrimps come into shallower water near the shore during the winter, where they can more conveniently be taken...
...Burton is a gentleman jockey, he has unusually tender feelings, to be forced to neglect his work due merely to ribald jibes. And if he is a gentleman he should feel a good deal more humiliated at having spend over two years grubbing for some money in reparation for something that was nobody's fault but his own, and that he had no business getting in for in the first place...