Word: tenders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...NATIONAL IDOL. By 1918 his fan mail (actual) was enormous. 'Would it be terribly unprofessional to send him this letter so he can know that a Virginia lassie has fallen for his clear honest eyes, his fine brow and tender mouth? Tell him I am 19 and unattached and awfully interested.' That was a typical plea-of thousands...
...quarantine, the girls have no source of purchasing this delicacy. So the Vagabond entered a likely looking A & P, and for 67 cents invested in twenty packages of Wrigley's best. Then, with wonderful business ideas seething through his head, he offered them for sale. But, alas, always a tender fellow, he capitulated; they went for 67 cents. And now a certain lady is making a golden mint from the double one she had not eschewed...
George Bernard Shaw is old now (75) and Ellen Terry is dead (since 1928); but they were young once. These letters, a record of an amazingly tender affair of the heart, bear witness to their protracted youth. Published not only with Shaw's permission but with his connivance, the book has a foreword by Shaw, numerous explanatory notes. The story the letters tell was a queer affair...
...from stage convention. He called her "dearest and beautifullest," "dearest love"; she called him "sweet-heart," "my beautiful," tried to get him to call her "Nellen," but he wouldn't. Once Shaw wrote to her: "Dearest Love: send me one throb of your heart whilst it is still tender with illness. It will be hard again on Monday; so be quick, quick, quick." Once Ellen Terry wrote to him: "Dear fellow, Goodbye. On each of your fingers', goodbye, and on the end of your little nose, good-bye." As their intimacy progressed they wondered how and when they...
...year, he wrote: "Never was the National Guard more thoroughly organized, equipped and trained than it is today. Having accomplished the major missions that challenged when this appointment was accepted, believing it unwise to initiate new and larger military projects during this unusual season of economic readjustment ... I respectfully tender my resignation...