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Word: tenders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia, scourge of furriners,* picked up another poker and found it hot. Six men convicted of taking part in nocturnal Ku Klux Klan floggings, three of them now on the chain gang, appealed for clemency. Gene's tender heart was touched. He expressed sympathy for "misguided" floggers, admitted that he had once been one himself. Promising a public hearing on the appeal, he reportedly advised attorneys for the floggers to "have some preachers up here to speak for these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Gene Dropped It | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

...audience which is the last glittering show in western civilization. In the Diamond Horseshoe, niftiest railbirds were Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh, Lady Decies and Mrs. Leonora Warner (see cut). No one paid much attention to the opera, which was one of the lasting achievements of western civilization-the tender, comic Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: At the Met | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

...broadcast with the grace of a ballet master. A pleasant script takes him, two boon companions and a Hottentot boy on various African adventures that provide easy openings for such love songs as Here Am I, unique in its treatment of the adamantine mother theme, or such tender Boer campfire songs as Brandy, Leave Me Alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Veld Vet | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

Louis Dobnikar, water tender, second class, Cleveland, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: National Affairs, Oct. 27, 1941 | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

Herman August Gajeway, water tender, first class, Troy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: National Affairs, Oct. 27, 1941 | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

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