Word: tenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Post is quite right . . . in that the "18th Century cup [with] fine and slightly flaring rim" does not drool, but her fine teacup requires tender care-more time in dish washing...
...stimulation which they get from, the larvae's squirmings, the workers lose their restlessness. The whole colony marches into a hollow log. After a few days of this seclusion, the queen is gravid. Her abdomen swells enormously, and she lays some 30,000 eggs, which hatch into tender white larvae. When both larvae and "callow" ants are ready to travel, the colony becomes nomadic again...
...Chloe's devoted suitors are rewarded only with such snacks as "the incomparable Chloe Cocktail" ("She sipped it, leaving a kiss within the cup, and bestowed it on Claude as it were a decoration") and "that lovely, quick, tender smile which she had given, he knew, to a hundred men, but which remained always a private benediction...
Lest anyone think that all this was motivated by a tender concern for Zionism, Professor Victor D. Lutzky, who holds down the Palestine desk at the Soviet Foreign Office, delivered a significant lecture in which he declared 1) that Zionism was an imperialist-capitalist campaign to set up a "bourgeois state" in Palestine, 2) that Zionism lacked the support of the "Jewish masses" and 3) that Palestine belonged to the Arabs. Meanwhile, Radio Moscow and Izvestia continued their efforts to rouse both Arabs and Jews against British imperialism...
...Street Saloon, Restaurant and Entertainment Palace. Dunn is a sentimental Irishman, and this is a play by a sentimental Armenian, which is enough said. Dunn muffed some of his lines badly last night, demonstrating that he hasn't been with the part long, but with that exception gave a tender and warm-hearted performance...