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...same collection, he could be familial and tender: Gone now the baby's nurse/a lioness who ruled the roost/ and made the Mother cry. Yet even in his more resigned moments, he really seemed to distrust tranquillity: Cured, I am frizzled, stale and small...
...Revolutionary press, Tories and Redcoats were inevitably "brutes, whose tender mercies are cruelties," men who would have used germ warfare if only microbes had been discovered. To the Tory and British press, the rebels were just as inevitably ruffians, illiterates, mongrels and cowards who refused to face a fight squarely. During British Cavalry Colonel Banastre Tarleton's fiery raids in New York's rebellious upper Westchester County, Rivington's Gazette reported that "the rebel officers and men quitted their jades, and threw themselves over the fences to gain the swamp." Tarleton "returned to the camp...
...insurance and banking combine controlling assets of more than $2 billion, which blandly described its spectacular 1964 Braniff Airways takeover as "a limited departure from our general goals," suddenly departed again-much to the shock of Cleveland's Glidden Co. Without warning, Glidden was hit with a Greatamerica tender seeking to buy 54% of Glidden's stock for $30 a share, or $107 million all told. Texan Troy V. Post, Greatamerica's president, was not saying why he wanted the comfortably prosperous (1966 sales: $352 million) food, chemical and paint company. But Glidden President William G. Phillips...
...Britain's Automobile Association-published magazine Drive, the same chauffeur-style gentleness that "spares back-seat passengers any sudden jolts also gives maximum miles per gallon," and parking "with a suitable air of reverence avoids costly damage to tire walls." At the same time, the kind of tender loving care that chauffeurs generally bring to servicing and polishing "ensures long life for the car and maximum secondhand value...
When there is a coincidence of talent (which happens now about half the time and will no doubt happen more often when a large audience incites the cast to comedy) Carnival is riotous, though riotous gives you no sense of the tender and gentle emotions which overcome an audience shaking with laughter at Thurber's humor...