Word: tenderly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What was contained in the outraged consciousness of the son of the Grand Rabbi at the moment when four young men regarded his naked body with disapproval, poking it in tender spots? Not only was he the son of a Grand Rabbi and even the grandson of a Grand Rabbi but he was a Grand Rabbi himself; his name was Jehuda Leib Twersky, he was of venerable age, he came from Antwerp and he had a long, black, fluffy beard. The only clue to his thoughts was a remark he made when it was all over: "I believe that...
Horween's next visit to Cambridge will probably be on the occasion of the banquet which the Harvard Club of Boston is anxious to tender this year's Crimson team. The date for this affair has not been set and awaits such a time when the head coach can arrange to be present with the team...
Stern and ominous though the situation seemed, Dowager Queen Marie was not without words of cheer: "Hasn't Rumania a small, bright star on her horizon?-Our little King Mihai, our tender but lovely hope. He is our symbol, and just because we are a young country and because of our struggles and griefs, what sweeter symbol could we have than a little innocent child, around whom one and all, great and small, rich and poor, unite to guide and help and protect-little Mihai, our King...
Even cynics sympathized with Peasant Juliu Maniu as he left the Royal Palace. More than a "tender but lovely hope" is needed to keep his Cabinet afloat with a temporarily unbalancable budget. That could be done by former Prime Minister Vintila Bratiano because he had behind him the great fiscal tycoons of Rumania. The new peasant Cabinet must not only worry through without such assistance, but must wage next month a national Parliamentary campaign. Even best wishers of Prime Minister Maniu were forced to admit, last week, that his little Ship of State is tossed on perilous seas...
...Brown's Body yet? Crictics, call it has greatest American poem--but its as fascinating as a novel and just as easy to read. Nearly a hundred thousand people have discovered that here at last is a poem more thrilling than fiction--a poem of glamorous history, inspiring biography, tender, gallant romance...