Word: tenderly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Inverting a famed trade slogan, Dr. Faunce declared: "Hundreds of American students are held back by mental conditions of which their best friends are often unaware." The appointment of "the best men in the medical profession" was expected to save unbalanced Brown students from the tender mercies of the psychiatrist, from whose diagnoses amateur introspectors have been known to derive harmful results, trying to "live up to their characteristics...
...found, in at least one out of every five homes. Parents got drunk in the presence of their children. Wives who tended the stills ended by running away with the "star-boarder." Young girls demanded that their boy friends provide liquor on auto parties, so that immorality at tender ages was prevalent. Once the priest heard a child of three pleading, "Mamma, moonshine...
...Choumen, Bulgaria, a special electric treatment is applied by experts to the more tender membranes and organs of the body, in order to make the suspected man or woman talk. Several persons have died under this treatment...
...stages from Spitzbergen with an intermediate base on Cape Morris Jessup. Greenland, taking with him only one flight companion, Chief Petty Officer Floyd Bennett, but having at call by radio in Kings Bay a reserve plane (Curtiss Oriole) manned by fellow service flyers; after reading a great many flattering, tender, hopeful, encouraging farewell messages (doubtless including one from his brother, Governor Harry F. Byrd of Virginia, "youngest U. S. governor, 38")?after all was in readiness, Lieutenant Commander Richard E. ("Dickie") Byrd journeyed to the Brooklyn Navy Yard and boarded the good ship Chantier. There...
...were the women players spared. At times the students would pretend to weep in sheer mockery; occasionally the sounds of kissing would break in upon some tender situation and completely spoil its effect. And between successive flights of lemons came ever and anon the Harvard yells of 'Rotten...