Word: tendering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...injected himself into the Russell case in New York on the side of those whose bigotry menaces academic liberty. We regret that he has prevented New York citizens from peacefully demonstrating at the French Consulate their objection to having some 90,000 Spanish refugees returned to Franco's tender mercy...
Mickey Rooney. In 1937 MGM bought a play by Aurania Rouverol, called Skidding. It was a mild little piece about a small town U. S. family, named Hardy, whose ups and downs were intended to rouse no deeper emotion in theatre-goers than a tender smile through a film of happy tears. MGM proposed to turn Skidding, with title changed to A Family Affair, into a picture on a rock-bottom budget of less than...
...holding up fairly well, the profit margin was growing narrower and narrower. In 1937, beating the bushes with such radio headliners as Rudy Vallée (for Fleischmann's Yeast and Royal Gelatin Desserts), wooden Charlie McCarthy (for Chase & Sanborn Dated Coffee), "One Man's Family" (for Tender Leaf Tea), Standard Brands ran up record net sales of $122,517,121. But even in briefly booming 1937, Standard Brands' net profit was only 73? a share compared with 1930's $1.22. And Mrs. O'Brien's dividend income (from 300,000 shares of common...
...Time of Your Life. William Saroyan's tender, boozy picture of life in a waterfront honky-tonk (TIME...
Variously called Lama Tanchu, or Lama Dhondup, or Ehrlingh ("Divine Child"), the new Dalai Lama last fortnight took his official name: Jampel Ngag-Wang Lobsang Yishey Tenzing Gyamtso, deriving from the names of earlier Dalai Lamas and meaning "Tender Glory, Mighty in Speech, Excellent Intellect, Absolute Wisdom, Holding to the Doctrine, Ocean-Wide." To most Tibetans he will be known, like his predecessors, as Gyamtso Rimpoche ("Glorious King"). So glorious is he supposed to be, in fact, that the monks of his palace-fortress, the Potala, will do a thriving business selling barley pills containing his excreta-a specific...