Word: tenders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protect their tender fundaments, Monte Carlo croupiers sit on soft leather doughnuts, as experience has shown that this shape of cushion is best for the work. Even so, spinning a roulette wheel while keeping argus eyes on ladies and gentlemen who are prone to cheat is nerve-racking business. To keep croupiers from having nervous breakdowns they are changed every few hours, retire between times to a musty lounge below stairs equipped with shower baths. But sooner or later a Monte Carlo croupier was sure to go crazy in public...
...charge for remaining "loyal" to the Nanking Government thrifty General Chen Chi-tang has demanded and received more than $3,000,000 in the past three months. Flush with cash, General Chen turned his thoughts last week to tender young monkeys, the kind served temptingly in Canton restaurants as a spécialité de la maison, which tastes not unlike chicken...
...pose, no affectation, no sentimentality. She comes on the stage usually in a severe black velvet dress, sits down calmly and plays Bach so that the audience shouts for more. She plays Beethoven with the stride and strength of a man. Her Brahms and Schumann are expertly tender. Evidence of Hess's powers are the houses she draws. During Depression when most audiences have dwindled hers have steadily increased until today she is rated not only as the world's greatest woman pianist, but as one of the world's few great musicians...
...receipt and it would be difficult to find out just who deposited gold and gold certificates. Also it would be regarded as unfair to pay a profit to those who by accident happened to possess gold certificates in March, while the rest of the country used other legal tender currency...
Featured in the January Scribners is the first of four installments of "Tender is the Night," a Riviera romance by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Mr. Fitzgerald is one of the many young men who were, in his time, driven to self expression as an alternative to going abroad in a tramp steamer; he is one of the few of them who has learned the mechanics of writing. Everything that comes from his pen has the same brittle competence. One sees the commas, the exclamations, the paragraphs, falling inexorably into place, and the people, the situations, the emotions, falling with them...