Word: tenderly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paper currency which the U. S. had, over a two-year period, manufactured to substitute for the bills now in circulation. For the first time in 66 years the U. S. was changing the size of its currency, simultaneously simplifying and standardizing the design. The new money became legal tender July...
...have had sufficient contacts with hobos to be surprised at the definition given by you in the footnote page 54, TIME, June 24, for blind baggage. I have always understood the blind baggage to be the narrow forward platform of the foremost baggage or mail car, immediately behind the tender. This is one of the three points at which hobos may attempt a free ride on a passenger or express train, the other two being the roof of a car and the rods...
...Story. The net effect is feverish horror. Surcease is afforded bY Paul's leave, by a stolen feast, by the men's comradeship, by their tender care of the absurdly young recruits, by mild affairs with several motherly prostitutes...
...Chinese" O'Neill. At this play tender members of the audience will do well to plug their ears with cotton. Toward the end of the second act, the muscular "Chinese" O'Neill, soldier of fortune extraordinary, finds himself and his English friends, including the dashing Hon. Nancy Beresford, trapped within a rickety Chinese inn by crawling yellow men. O'Neill begins blasting away with a machine gun. The ladies have horse pistols. Several other characters have miscellaneous shooting irons. But despite this artillery the Chinamen triumph, enter with a cabinet in which is contained the corpse of the Hon. Nancy...
...where, with the aid of a pointer outlining Kingdom of Clavery and Republic of Agravia, two fictitious Balkan states, the story begins. It seems there is a certain precious metal called calcomite. The English control all the calcomite mines except those in Agravia. And the Agravians, out of a tender regard for the British, refuse to sell theirs to anyone, even to the Americans. In their New York skyscraper, the Americans remark that if only Clavery, the friendly kingdom, were to attack, invade, annex Agravia, Clavery would then control calcomite, sell it to America. But one Paul Zelinka becomes King...