Word: tendering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stern is the surveillance of her tender audience, which permits her to take no liberties with favorite stories. Only human, it likes plenty of gore along with its fantasy. Miss Mack keeps in constant touch with her fans, being a specialist at deciphering childish handwriting. Best letter she's received to date: "Will you please send me a free fairy...
...dream of lamb chops! . . . They rollop up and down in front of Fontainebleau, parading huge signs: 'Ruth Ericksen is unfair to lamb chops! We are young, tender and juicy. . . . Moreover, we are modest, we wear frills down to our ankles and that is more than SHE does on some of these Saturday nights-yeah...
...Marine Corps) undertook to censor his civilian writings. For answer he got a weaseling memo, finding in one paragraph that as an inactive reservist he was not subject to control, in the next that by "custom and usage" he was under the Navy thumb. Replied Al Williams: "I tender my resignation quietly and without publication. . . . My services will always be at the command of the U. S. Marine Corps. And in case of emergency I shall bring with me my two standard single-seater fighting planes . . . and they shall be donated without cost to the Marine Corps...
...times, theirs was a far from unhappy life. As pieced together by Biographer Ross from the Lamb literary remains, from scraps of correspondence, there is little ordeal in the day-to-day doings of Bridget Elia (Lamb's literary name for his sister). What emerges is a singularly tender brother-&-sister relationship, of much charm, grace, fortitude, patience. In her long lucid intervals, Mary Lamb led a lively life: The Ordeal of Bridget Elia is a lively record...
...contentedly, the little girl toddled out the front gate and started down the road. A swift dark shape which had been wheeling in the blue sky plummeted down. It was an enormous eagle. The little girl saw the sinister shape, flinched and screamed, but the fierce talons closed on tender flesh, the child was caught into the air, and with powerful pinions beating, the eagle headed for its eyrie. At that moment the child's father spreng out the door with his rifle. Without an instant's hesitation, risking the child's life if his aim were...