Word: tenderly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statesmen retired below, conferred for two hours. Finally they emerged, shook hands again, and all present embarked upon a tender for the Premier's yacht. There luncheon was served. There the statesmen conferred again. Some thousands of cheering Italians who lined the shore and spied upon the Dolphin and the Giuliana wondered, as did many a newsgatherer, just what the Premier and the Foreign Secretary said to each other. Straining their ears they heard distinctly "God Save the King" rendered by the Giuliana'a band...
Westermarck, in his Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas declares that among the Fiji Islanders the metaphor "as tender as a dead man" is in good use; and that throughout the South Seas human flesh is well known to be a delicious food "far superior to pork...
...people are so real that there will be endless discussion of who is actually who: Sculptor St. George is Sculptor Saint-Gaudens, and so on. If the fabrication of fictitious letters and other personalia are remarkable, the character relations are even more so, especially the courteous, humorous, almost tender friendship between the divorced senior Lords. There is no "diddle-diddle-dumpling" about My Son John. After the prevailing diet of pink-tea fiction, John Lord and his story are strong, black coffee...
...turn first, did it well, won the praise of connoisseurs for the gratifying performance of Soprano Lorna Doone Jaxon, the general excellence of the ensembles. Aïda seemed depressed by the idea of her own popularity, sagged a little, but Rigoletto stepped along, vigorously, evenly. Then came Boheme, tender, lush; Cavalleria, primitive, sententious; Pagliacci, glittering, theatrical; Butterfly, effusive, incidental; and Trovatore fittingly climactic...
This sum was announced as the staggering marriage dot of the daughter of Henry Ford. She, tender, susceptible, had yielded to the suit of Count Alexander Skrzynski (6 ft. 3 in.), onetime Premier of Poland (TIME, May 3) who visited here last year (TIME, July 27). Miss Ford would bring to Poland enough gold to send the zloty zooming...