Word: tenderness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back as 1935, when Japan tried to corner enough of China's silver currency to control her trade, China cleverly countered by withdrawing silver as legal tender and issuing notes which could be of no use to Japan...
...Ickes, who is as tough as anyone in handing out verbal socks, though a little tender on the receiving end, proceeded to tag individual columnists with some typical Ickes' characterizations. Walter Lippmann "would never even break his wooden sword unless he should trip over it in a minuet." Dorothy Thompson, "the Cassandra of the columnists*. . . a sincere and earnest lady who is trying to cover too much ground." Mark Sullivan "would be missed . . . even if the world would still manage nicely without the pontifications that waddle through his worried columns." Frank R. Kent "delights in cruel jibes and acidulous...
Christ in Concrete, autobiographical but imaginative, is a passionate, humorous, pathetic story of peasant Italians in the U. S., at work, in tenements, in animal anguish and animal high spirits. Author di Donato's Italians speak a translated Italian, lyrical, bawdy, tender, crude...
...cheap process for making all kinds and grades of beef more tender was announced last week by Pittsburgh's Mellon Institute of Industrial Research. The process, sponsored and financed by Kroger Grocery & Baking Co., involves "hanging" the meat so that its enzymes may weaken and break-down the fibres and connective tissues that make meat tough. Ordinarily such hanging (to obtain a few very choice steaks) requires four to eight weeks under expensive cold-storage conditions. In the Mellon-Kroger process it is done in a few days at a temperature of 60°, a relative humidity...
...Morgan). But the vehicle is unimportant; around the character of Francoise--portrayed by Miss Morgan with an almost psychological profundity amazing for her seventeen years--the interest is centered. Not beautiful except in certain poses, she is nevertheless very appealing, and although her character is at once vain, cruel, tender, and generous, she succeeds in making it credible. If Charles Boyer is overshadowed, it is because the script was so constructed, not because of any weakness in his performance; and the minor characters--even the impossibly naive Gilbert (Robert Manuel) and the eccentric, hardly credible Robert (Jean Louis Barrault...