Word: tenderly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slender, slightly bent figure that stood almost shrinking while Eliot spoke, the bowed head, the downcast eyes-and the cheers that shook the theatre? " Le Baron Russell Briggs.' A wondrous voice rang out the words. Le Baron Russell Briggs. The well-beloved dean of Harvard College, patient, tender, discerning, candid, just and cheering because convinced of the overwhelming predominance of good in the student world.' And unshaken and unshakable in this conviction, which is the soul of love, for more than 40 years Le Baron Briggs has walked among us and wist not that his face shone...
...face crinkled and traced by the ways of much laughter, he is constantly making his little jokes. Something of the mystic, something of the comedian and a little of the clown, he looks at life with great enthusiasm and tempers that enthusiasm with a wit that is at once tender and ironical...
...This "tender, loving Mother...
...Portrait of a Lady-rich, vivid delicate, tender, attractive. (P. 14, col 3.) The rescuer of a floundering company...
...what seemed to us highly disproportionate cordiality." Critic Taylor's confreres were less rigorous in their estimate of the composition of Composer Taylor. They, in their writings next day, used brave words: "Rich" (The New York Times) ; "Vivid" (The New York Herald-Tribune) ; "Delicate" (The New York American) ; "Tender" (The New York Telegram-Evening Mail) ; "Attractive" (The New York Evening World...