Word: tenders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...character in this book. Like other less scrupulous authors, Waugh uses some of his funniest incidents (Tony and Mrs. Rattery playing a card game while his little son is lying dead upstairs) to point his pathos. A Handful of Dust is a cunningly contrived cinema of cold wit, tender humor, impersonal satire, shameless, but effective hokum. Only a rare reader will be able to sit it through unmoved either to a smile or a sigh. The total effect is sinister. Author Waugh must be credited with having written a novel truly representative of an age which is partly melodrama, partly...
Boston has maintained through the years the reputation of the purest city of its size in the Republic. Many years ago Mr. H. L. Mencken, then enjoying a prophet's repute, found his "American Mercury" suppressed because of an article which offended the tender nostrils of the Hub. A little later, Mr. Eugene O'Neill, the American dramatic laureate, found his "Strange Interlude" banned to the purlieus of Quincy because the Back Bay would have no dealings with incest. And within the memory of the current college generation of the Morals Squad of the peerless. Boston Constabulary found it necessary...
Well does Secretary of Commerce Daniel Calhoun Roper know how to pleasure his friends. He does it by importing watermelons from his native South Carolina. So tender and so succulent are these great green fruit that he has them brought by automobile lest they be damaged traveling by rail. Last week he pleasured newshawks by presenting his weekly press conference with two enormous South Carolina melons, 3 ft. long and weighing, by report, 80 Ib. each...
Here we are, under a night of blessing . . . Here we are, sharing each thrill So tender, silently you surrender, But is it love...
...very clear that we do not wish the plane to be overhead at any time throughout the King's program. But we accept full responsibility for the miscarriage of our plans, resulting in an incident which detracted from a ceremony so impressive and so important. We desire to tender to the Lord Mayor and the civic authorities, and to every one concerned, our sincere apology for an occurrence which was entirely unpremeditated and unforeseen, and in some measure to atone for it we shall ask the Lord Mayor's acceptance of a cheque for £5,000 for the benefit...