Word: tendering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brave men and great fighters are the followers of Islam, but their religious sensibilities are tender as an aching tooth. Because the British War Office tried to get them to bite paper cartridges tactlessly greased with pork tallow 76 years ago, Moslem sepoys fought the great Indian Mutiny. Because a Moslem fanatic proclaimed himself a redeemer or Mahdi in Egypt 40 years ago, thousands of Egyptians rebelled, left the bland head of Charles George ("Chinese") Gordon stuck on a spike at the gates of Khartoum. Last week because a Swiss headmistress hoisted the skirts and paddled the bottom of naughty...
...Ever a shrewd business man, Wagner demanded $5.000 for his March and when it was finished he sent it, not to Conductor Theodore Thomas who had commissioned it for the Philadelphia celebration, but to a German bank, there to be held until the $5,000 was deposited. The few tender passages Wagner interpreted as being "the beautiful and accomplished women of America joining in the festival procession." The flyleaf of the score bears the note "Dedicated to the Women's Centennial Committee by Richard Wagner...
...Siam's erstwhile was replaced in 1928 by her silver baht of one hundred satangs. Nickel & bronze satang pieces are legal tender only up to one baht, above which sum debtors must pay silver...
...earn a living. Aryan scientists made that plain last week when the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of the Sciences held its annual meeting. To Chancellor Hitler, Physicist Max Planck, the Society's president and a Nobel Laureate, sent this salute: "The Society begs leave to tender reverential greetings to the Chancellor and its solemn pledge that German science is also ready to cooperate joyously in the reconstruction of the new National State...
...Alice White). When she flusters him, Cagney bluntly knocks her down. When a bereaved husband comes to shoot him he hides in the women's lavatory. When the daughter (Patricia Ellis) of a loud-mouthed Irish policeman (Robert Emmet O'Connor) visits the office, Cagney's tender instincts are released like a load of bricks. When he takes the girl home her father recognizes a once legitimate target and absentmindedly commences firing. Finally Cagney gets into trouble for smuggling a camera into an electrocution. He retires to a speakeasy, emerges to recover his prestige by turning over...