Word: tendering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once more Tannhäuser was the first day's opera. Familiar was the cast: fat Lauritz Melchior sang the title rôle; Soprano Maria Muller of the Metropolitan Opera was an able Elizabeth, but (said a U. S. correspondent) "her impersonation wanted in true virginal tenderness and womanliness." The Venusberg scene did not represent "frenzied eroticism" but "revue calisthenics." Venus (Contralto Anni Helm) was "tender, but in a maternal way." Nevertheless the audience was enthusiastic, applauded (mostly for Toscanini) a full ten minutes...
...twister struck the Empire Builder broadside just behind the tender. The baggage car coupling snapped like thread. The vacuum sucked coach after coach up from the track, lifted them like a giant's playthings through the air, flopped them down on their sides along the right-of-way. As the storm swirled away eastward, torrents of rain fell upon a wreck unique in U. S. railroading...
June weather. Soon his proteges would be leaving the Cantabrigian shores for Home. A wave of sadness engulfed the Vagabond. He could see the shining faces of his school children on vacation. The tender charm of the parental hearth. And he was saddened by the reflection that he had no home other than Harvard. True it was a fine place but there was no denying a lack of homely atmosphere resplendent in the surroundings. No milk-bottles on the back-porch, for instance...
Elinor Whitney and Dorothy, buxom, frizzy-haired daughters of Manhattan Pastor Harry Emerson Fosdick, were appointed "grass cops" at Smith College. Armed with whistles, they will blow a smart blast whenever they see trespassers treading tender turf...
...organs of an animal have their own struggle for existence. That is why animals of the same general family have different characteristics. Example: the shovel tusked mastodon developed its lower jaw to scoop food from swamps. The African elephant developed its upper tusks to uproot trees for their tender top leaves. This Osborn theory opposes the Darwinian theory that new types develop from accidental variations of which only those survive which are best adapted to their environment; the Lamarckian theory that new types inherit the changed habits of ancestors; the "vitalistic" theory that a force for change occurs within...