Word: tenderness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last winter, after twelve barren years, frail Mrs. Howard Albert Jackson of Manhattan bore her proud husband a baby girl. For two months the joyous Jacksons showed off little Alice to their admiring friends. Then suddenly they noticed that her head was swelling like a little balloon. The tender fontanel at the top of her head was tense and bulging, and thick blue veins stood out like cords underneath her downy hair. The doctor shook his head, told them that the baby had hydrocephalus (water on the brain) and, like 2,000 other hydrocephalic children born...
Last week the harvest began in Wisconsin and Michigan. Hundreds of Peter Pipers-itinerant pickers, farm laborers, owners of small cucumber patches-worked their way on soil-stained knees between rows of tender vines, carefully pulling off little fellows to be made this winter into gherkins, midgets, tiny-tims and other one-bite numbers, bigger fellows to be brined into dills and koshers...
...bright spot in old San Antonio until 1937 was its Hay Market Plaza. There, on the Mexican West Side at evening charcoal blazed under open pots and Mexican "Chili Queens" served hot tamales, enchiladas, tortillas, chili-&-beans, famed menudo (tender tripe and hominy) to customers at sidewalk tables. Then San Antonio authorities ran the "Chili Queens" off the Plaza as a "sanitary" measure...
Shirts which are shrunk at the factory and therefore hold their own in the laundry are deemed by many a grateful tender-neck to be marvels of modern science...
Until Doctor Gallup's enumerators reach Cambridge we shall have to remain unhappily ignorant of the relative strength at Harvard of the "tender-minded" and the "tough minded." But this we do know now: however receptive the class of '39 may be to President Conant's Baccalaureate advice "Neglect the tumult of the moment," however complacent they may become in the face of wars and panics and clashing ideologies, there is still enough energy left in them for just a little tumult. Harvard's seniors are still interested in Harvard, and they are willing to disturb the mellow mood...