Word: tenders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yuma (Columbia). "Safe?" sneers the marshal. "Who knows what's safe? I know a man dropped dead from lookin' at his wife." By that standard, moviegoers will be safer at this picture than at home. The marshal is trying to "deppytize" a passel of Hollywood tender-seats to convey a captured dry-gulch artist (Glenn Ford) cross country to catch a train, but the bandit's gang is on the lurk, and the cowboys aren't having any. They leave the job to a drought-poor homesteader (Van Heflin) who needs the money...
After interviewing 384 Greater Boston housewives, they concluded that women who vote Democratic are "tender-minded" while Republican women are "tough-minded." The female Democrats "feel a social warmth in the people around them, and they feel much the same warmth in their own political party." The Republican women "appear to have the more self-oriented approach . . . They seem to have greater self-confidence and awareness of their own capacity." To them, the candidate's competence is the most important consideration; for Democrats, "the intellectual aspects" are most important-"thinking rather than doing, intention rather than action...
...when, instead of the announcer, we are given a pair of young people necking in a canoe. Eventually the boy stops nibbling at the girl's earlobes long enough to murmur huskily: 'Darling, have a Wonderborough, they're milder because they are made only from the tender center leaf.' 'Yes, dear.' she purrs back, 'and did you know that more people are switching to Wonderboroughs than to any other leading brand?' Now I ask you-what are we supposed to think? I know what I think: those two kids are sick." Jean...
...when Louis XV died and the young pair ascended the throne ("We are too young to reign," they sobbed when told of the King's death), the new Louis XVI was still hoping to consummate his marriage and father an heir. In Marie Antoinette he had found a tender, sympathetic wife who, though apparently never in love with him, did all she could to aid his efforts and alleviate his shame. Already half mother, half schoolteacher, adolescent Marie Antoinette began slowly to civilize her royal booby. And when at last a minor surgical operation ended their painful frustration, Louis...
...Legal Tender. In Lima, Ohio, Duane Fett and a pal were fined $5 each for creating a disturbance when a gas-station attendant refused to sell them i/ worth of gasoline, explained they were settling a bet on whether a man could buy that much...