Word: tenderable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seventh Heaven which Janet Caynor be become the darling of a million ladies. They wanted cuteness in love, they found in for a long time in Charbe Parrell and Janet Gaynor. Then Charlie did a talking picture version of Libom in a role that called for the bluff and tender in a man. His voice was too thin and without nuance...
Lacy McNair, the bridge tender, was the only one who saw it happen, and there was nothing he could do. To let a tug through one morning last week he had just opened the drawbridge over the muddy Appomattox River a mile from Hopewell, Va. when he heard a tearing crash. Twisting, he saw a big Greyhound bus southbound from Richmond skid through the safety gate, plunge with its screaming passengers off the open bridge. Nothing came up from the 24-foot depth but some oil, bubbling and streaking the surface of the yellow river...
...toilet for the first time. "Oh-h-h!" she cries, breathless at the wonder of her maidenly discovery, "you're shaving!" Not even the quiet resolution of punctilious Albert prevents her from embracing him before an open palace window, an act of domestic abandon evocative of certain tender moments in the cinema version of A Farewell to Arms...
...Eyes." Describing himself as "a man who, whatever be his faults, has a good liver and a smiling character," irrepressible Guglielmo Emanuel flatly denied ever having called anybody banjo-eyed and vowed he had never before heard the expression. "My Scotch terrier Banjo," he said, "has very-beautiful and tender eyes and is not exophthalmic. ... I am temperamentally unsuited to jibing. I am not a 'Mussolini-baiter.' I dissented from Fascism and Mussolini as any sincere Liberal would do -that is, on political grounds and not on personal ones...
Neither cold weather nor a ruthless campaign of extermination will deter a colony of crimson ants from seeking nourishment in Wigglesworth F entry, Scraps of food, bits of toothpaste, and tender morsels of shaving cream are avidly consumed by the tribe of beasties...