Word: tenderable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read of the exploits of an Obstetrician who terms himself "Love's Whitewing, or the D. S. C. of the tender passions," or of the horrible torture Mr. Clippey underwent in his frustrated efforts to "wash his hands," or of the sad plight of "a spinster named Gretel, who wore underclothes made of metal," or chuckle over Mr. Nash's delicate eulogy to a privy. But personally we enjoyed most a little song by Odgen Nash entitled "Quartet For The Sidewalks of New York" from which we quote a stanza...
...needs "a wrap, a steak, a toddy and a kick!" to a celebrity who seems "so small beneath her crown!" A contrast between a farmer's "quilted hills" and a desolate city ruin suggests the type of life Peggy Bacon opposes to that which she satirizes. One surprisingly tender lyric, "Detached," indicates that she writes best when she is wholeheartedly sentimental or wholeheartedly mean...
...tenderloin, tongue, liver and hindquarters. Experts consider that if horses were bred like cattle the slight toughness of horsemeat, which is not so tough as venison, would be readily overcome. While not admitting ever to have cooked horsemeat, Brooklyn's Pratt Institute declared last week that the tender cuts should be broiled like beef. Less tender cuts, meat for the poorest of the poor, should be scored, pounded and marinated in oil & vinegar, pot-roasted or as a last resort hamburged...
...evening's sensation was a set of Fantasias by British Henry Purcell whose death in 1695 deprived England of its greatest musical genius. The Purcell pieces played last week were lightly scored but they were so vital and direct, so tender, so craftily sure that the audience behaved as if it had just heard the percussive Bolero or driving Pacific 231. The final Fantasia, an ingenious weaving around a single note, had to be repeated. Then quiet Hans Lange was thanked time & again for reviving such long-neglected music...
...been through a long trek in the band business. According to his calculations, he was sucking a sax at the tender age of eleven, advancing from there to a clarinet, and finishing up on a flute in balmier days...