Word: tenders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still looked like a foetus when he was born, had to be incubated. His parents soon found him a precocious handful, gradually came to the conclusion that John was a being superior to the normal. Because he needed money for his private schemes, he turned burglar at a tender age, committed his first murder at the age of 9 (self-defense: the policeman had caught him red-handed). He sold many an invention, cleaned up in the stockmarket before he was well into his teens. Unwary adults, engaging him in conversation, wished they had not. John matured so fast...
...teeth in the government steamer Pomeroon. The Girl Pat tried desperately to escape by sail, headed for Venezuela. For nearly three hours the two boats dodged about the ocean while hundreds of spectators lined the shore. Finally the Pomeroon rammed the Girl Pat's stern, sank her tender, forced her to surrender. Cursing loudly, Captain Osborne and his three freebooting cronies were lugged off to jail. There the Inspector General gave one more fillip to the case by stating: "These men are not under detention. They have put themselves under police protection and they will...
...money's source. During the palmy days of Prohibition, they testified, Captain Cadek systematically jailed every liquor dealer in his territory who failed to give him handsome, periodic bribes. So well understood was Captain Cadek's policy that on one occasion the 'leggers combined to tender the "Skipper" a pig-roast and clambake, at which they presented him with two beer kegs so stuffed with currency that it had to be stamped down before Captain Cadek could lug it away...
...records would help young conductors with their phrasing and their tempi. Result was the release last week of a Toscanini Wagner album,* which included the Preludes to the first and third acts of Lohengrin; Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung; the tender Siegfried Idyll, composed by Wagner as a Christmas serenade for his wife Cosima the year after their son Siegfried was born. The Toscanini performances are peerless, the recordings faithful. First week sales were unparalleled, according to record dealers, since the days of Caruso. From headquarters in Camden. N. J., RCA Victor...
...tender vine-leaves, weave a shade...