Word: tenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chamber of Deputies when Mussolini dissolved it, never collaborated with the Fascists. Italy well remembered the election speech of this last pre-Fascist President of the Chamber in 1920: "All shall feel their love for this our land-cradle of us all and deathbed of our fathers-grow more tender as crisis threatens. . . ." Scattered critics complained that "he never did anything bad [because] he never did anything at all," that he was a man "with no passions." But even the rockbound royalists of his native Naples now supported "De Nicola's republic...
...Gentleman from Indiana, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner (The Magnificent Amber sons, 1919; Alice Adams, 1922), whose heirs included Willie Baxter, Penrod and Sam, Monsieur Beaucaire; after long illness; in Indianapolis. In the generation of Hoosier writing which produced James Whitcomb Riley and George Ade, he carved his niche with tender, trenchant satire on U.S. life and manners. A tremendous worker, he wrote 60 novels and plays, drove himself so hard that he once lost his eyesight. In the belief that pleasure should pay, he financed upkeep of his Kennebunkport, Me. home with chucklers about summer people (Mary's Neck...
...Tifton, Ga., and sped north over the Southern and Atlantic Coast Line roads. The lo-to-yo-car trains, as well as dozens of chartered airliners, all carried the same load: tomato seed plants. Before the short shipping season ends, South Georgia farmers will ship a billion tender young tomato plants for planting in northern fields, along with hundreds of millions of onion, cabbage, broccoli, sweet potato, pepper and lettuce seedlings...
Your review [TIME, April 15] of the movie adaptation of A. J. Cronin's tender The Green Years is a wholly disgusting critical endeavor. . . . The remark that "if cinema carries this sort of thing much farther, theaters will have to be consecrated" . . . is narrow, and is so lacking in perspicacity as to suggest that the reviewer is the residual of a brain extraction...
...Richards led the Crimson attack with three goals while Bill Potter contributed two; Ned Dewey and Zeke Arias netted one each. New goalie Bill Ennis played a sparkling game in the cage in the absence of Russ Schubert, the team's regular goal tender, who was injured in the Dartmouth game...