Word: tendering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hard-boiled and whimsical. He was brutal and tender, so I was told. From shop girl to 'sassiety queen,' they all seemed to develop certain tendencies in his presence. What may have resulted, deponent sayeth not. About some things 'Gene was Spinx-like. All I can report are the phenomena." --Weaver
...Armand in his romantic quest, some of his flunkies bait a tender trap. They transform one of his surplus châteaux into a luxury hotel, designate one room as the Chambre d'Amour, to be rented only to beautiful women under the pretext that the owner of the suite is out of town. Armand's role is to enter the Chambre d'Amour in the night, valise in hand, surprising the sleeping beauty and then gallantly offering to spend the night on the neighboring couch. This bedroom farce promptly nets Armand two discontented wives, whom...
...generations, to the often unconcealed horror of doting aunts and grandmothers, well-heeled young Britons have been bundled off to boarding schools at the tender age of eight or nine to learn to be young gentlemen in a manly atmosphere free of the influence of mothers and nannies. Last week, in similar fashion, Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip took their eight-year-old son Charles by the hand and delivered him over to Headmaster Peter Beck at Philip's own alma mater, Cheam, one of England's oldest and most tradition-encrusted preparatory schools...
...manhole cover was resting on his head. "Imagine my surprise," concluded the great man, "when I reached up and found out there was a manhole cover resting on my head." Without benefit of liquor, this sensation is available to the reader of the works (This Side of Innocence, Tender Victory) of Janet Miriam Taylor Caldwell...
...alumni fondly recall the ways of the "tender tyrant": she had her students carrying packages for her and driving her car, called them in the middle of the night to do copying work for her. In Teacher Boulanger, they found not only a diamond-edged musical intelligence but a sinewy will that forced them to hew rigidly to the demands of their talents. The distinguished Boulanger alumni-they call themselves the "Boulangerie"-were gathered in all parts of the world last week to celebrate her 70 birthday. At the split-level chalet of Conductor Igor Markevitch, in the Swiss Alps...