Word: tendernesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...honor of Our Lady of Nazareth, observed by the eating of barbecued beef, drinking rum aged in coconuts and dropping contributions into Our Lady's donkey cart, had just ended. South on the Hump, in the states of Pernambuco and Baía, the spring rains brought up tender green sprouts of sugar cane and tobacco, promising record crops...
...Smiths are again playing upon the fear of Russian expansion to promote their own brand of ostrich-like islationism. In light of the lessons of the 30's, this isolation is more than a short-sighted national policy. It is an international tragedy. In spite of its tender age and influence, "American Action" must be brought out into the light before its contagion has had a chance to flourish treacherously in the darkness...
...parietal rules producing these mortifying effects on the Yard residents were instituted many years ago when the entire population of the dormitories was then composed of Freshmen of tender ages. At the same time the residents of the Houses were permitted a vast amount of freedom in the enforcement of these same rules, on the basis of their status and age as upperclassmen. Now, the situation, though far from being reversed, is not comparable. Many hundreds of Freshmen, all veterans it is claimed, reside in the Houses. And in the Yard dormitories, once exclusively Freshman domain, are scores of upperclassmen...
Hollywood has often used illegitimacy as a theme-generally for deep, racking sobs (The Sin of Madelon Claudet, To Each His Own), less frequently for somewhat embarrassed guffaws (The. Miracle of Morgan's Creek). Surprisingly, the French have contrived, in this tender, low-keyed picture, to use illegitimacy for a few pleasant, amoral chuckles...
Bishops & Orchids. By the time loyal Bill Dunnigan was through giving the little girl a big funeral, her drab birthplace, Coaltown, Pa., was jammed with bishops, Hollywood producers, newspapermen, sobbing atheists, tender rabbis. Orchids poured in from the greenhouses of the rich; the local miner's union donated a handmade altar. Even St. Michael ("the saint who took on Kid Lucifer and put him down and out for the full count") came across with a couple of helpful miracles, and the corpse's ghost made several personal appearances, clad in "a faded blue dress...