Word: tenderness
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When the dinner was served, the Britannic lackeys were able to set before King Fuad a very fair example of his favorite etrée, tender, luscious little steaks of horse flesh...
...Senior going into professional stamp collecting, 15 into the army, and only two into agriculture, but the vast majority of the class are following expected tracks into business, law, and medicine, while a thoroughly normal 200 remain undecided. Although an extraordinary number of Seniors are still of a very tender age, the bulk of the class have passed their twenty-first and are waiting for their twenty-third birthday. Thirteen are married--a number which, though connotative to the minds of the superstitious, is far from surprisingly large. Lastly some 36 members of the class were born in foreign lands...
...Tender Hour (Ben Lyon, Billie Dove). Those who have never seen Elinor Glyn's Three Weeks, or read Beverly of Graustark, or thrilled to The Rover Boys, or breathed the fragrance of a 5-&-10c perfume counter, may get a composite impression of all by contemplating this creation about a U. S. hero who fights off the Grand Duke Sergeivitch and all his villainous fellows in order that the creamy, soft heroine may snuggle under his bold wing...
...becomes meditative and sympathetic. He comes to respect death. The approach is thoroughly naturalistic and pages are filled with physiological explanations. They are very illuminating but are carried to such extremes that in the end they become tedious and sometimes are in bad taste, even silly: "Something warm and tender clasped him round the back of his neck; melted with desire and awe, he laid his hands upon the flesh of her upper arms., where the fine-grained skin over the bicepts came to his sense so heavenly cool; and upon his lips he felt the moist clinging...
...diverting nonsense about a hoyden from Tenth Avenue who wants to be a lady. She makes a hit in a cabaret, appears in society under the patronage of a handsome gentleman friend, distresses her amiable prizefighting boy friend. But the drinking, lovemaking, gambling of the upper crust disgust her tender soul so much- that she returns just in time to cheer her prizefighter on to championship. A luridly punning sub-titier adds to the fun. Thus the Czechoslovakian princess is said to have "married twice but her Czechs were no good...