Word: tenderness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stern Judges. The judges entered. Four were regular magistrates with stern expressions ; five were representatives of left-wing parties. Koch was called to the bar by the president. He might have been walking into a cafe. The glance he cast at the judges might be meant for a bar tender. He merely nodded curtly in answer to the judge's questions. President Maroni: "Will you answer with something more than gestures?" Koch's voice suddenly rang out loud and firm, almost triumphant: "I was born at Benevento in south Italy 27 years ago. I was in Leghorn waiting...
...tender embrace, in the midst of which both the gentleman and lady are keeping one hand free to hold on to their spectacles...
...aides (he seldom speaks for himself) that he would build 50 more theaters in Canada to compete with Hollywood's outlets and perhaps a "showcase theater" in New York, also that this week he would visit the U.S., "just as a tourist." Will H. Hays hastened to tender him a dinner...
...Tender Passion. In Niagara Falls, N.Y., Roosevelt Posey beat up a woman on the street whom he mistook for his missing wife, was bailed out of jail by Mrs. Posey, who suddenly turned up and explained happily, "That proves he loves...
...subway, to find each other if they did, or to run into quite so picturesque a combination of gruffly kind metropolitan types. The trouble is more detailed than that. The pretty-enough "background music" (one of Hollywood's worst habits) reduces some of the storytelling from the sadly tender grandeur which the players and the monumental closeups earn to a sort of oversweetened, high-grade M. G. Mush...