Word: tenderable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...important angle to be considered is whether or not the female actually desires and appreciates this exchange of roles. How many tender romances have been spoiled because a shy young thing refuses the man of her choice in Leap Year, fearing lest her acquaintances think she has been the aggressor? How many ornithologists have seen the birds observing Leap Year? What pisciculturist would have the audacity to maintain that the fishes would alter their simple system of courtship for a mere convention...
...murder an aspect which caused numerous Japanese, including two schoolgirls, to prick themselves last week and write with their blood passionate pleas for mercy which Presiding Judge Major General Seisaburo Sato had read out in court. "Boo-hoo!" sobbed the Samurai's Son bursting into tears at the tender sentiments of pity penned in "maiden's blood...
...Roumania, and Yugo-Slavia. The climate of the Balkan region resembles closely the climate of Boston and it seemed probable that the Balkan strains of such plants as Ivy, Yew, and Box, coming from a climate similar to ours would prove more adsptable here than the more or less tender strains that have already been imported from northern Europe...
...that he looked upon himself not as a policy maker but as an expert who merely put his skill at the service of his country. Last week, however, he quit, simply saying in his letter to the President: "Circumstances have now arisen which make it advisable for me to tender you my resignation." An open secret in Washington was the fact that the "circumstances" were, in substance, the 1936 political campaign. Expert or no expert, he did not wish to stand in the light of one who supported an Administration whose policies he did not approve. President Roosevelt wrote...
...Baby Benedetto grew older it became obvious that he had very little coffinmaker in him. He roamed the streets, took to dicing and card-sharping at a tender age. While still a schoolboy he became an adept with the girls. The bishop, who took a paternal interest in the lad, rescued him from such scrapes as seducing a nun in her cell, but when he got to grave-robbing Benedetto had to leave town. He turned up in Venice under an assumed name, roistered it gamily with a night-livered crew. One faithless wench got his tongue wagging too freely...