Word: tendering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Methodist Henry Gerhard Appenzeller (1858-1902), described as "bold as a lion, tender as a woman, aflame with zeal," found Korea reactionary and pagan, gave it a school, a religious newspaper, a tract society, a printing and publishing house...
...dried drilling. Dr. Fuess believes that only an enthusiastic instructor can have an enthusiastic class; this, to be sure, is best proved by his own career as a teacher. His is the old idea of a scholar and a gentleman, a sort of Henry Ryecroft with an almost tender love and understanding of his books...
...bootlegger enter as surprise, witnesses and tell the truth, which sounds entirely incredible against the massed perjuries of Glenwood Park. So they perjure themselves, too, and so credibly that the prisoner is discharged. The Night of June 13, written by Vera Caspary. is bitter against meddling women and tender toward badgered men. Good shots: the kaleidoscope of Glenwood Park after Mrs. Curry's suicide, showing each household finishing a statement begun by the last; Grandpop Strawn letting chickens into the garden; Mrs. Curry's slightly crossed eyes peering out the window for her husband...
...showing a mother's pleased surprise on first viewing her offspring, too many shots of prop infants wrapped in blankets. Despite these faults and a theme which is a little too obviously dripping with drama, Life Begins, first release on Warner Brothers' 1932-33 production program, manages to be tender without being mawkish, sympathetic without being sentimental. Good shot: a nurse (Aline MacMahon) telling Sutton what has happened to his wife...
Back Street (Universal). Fannie Hurst's tender and moving biography of a kept woman is here reproduced in a sincere, detailed picture. Irene Dunne is the big-hearted daughter of a German notion-store keeper in Cincinnati. She falls in love with John Boles, a pedigreed young banker, who by a series of misunderstandings, makes her his mistress instead of his wife. Though Boles is selfish and niggardly, she rejects an old sweetheart who offers her position and wealth. The young banker becomes a big banker, supported by his mistress' advice. Going to Europe on a Reparations commission, he takes...