Word: lovingly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Good Shepherd, four miles outside the city, where Bertha and mama Hertogh waited for a plane to Holland. There the girl doffed her Moslem veil for European dress, tried to remember her Dutch, fondled a doll, told her mother: "It's hard having two mothers. I love you, and I love Aminah...
...Last Second. Other allergies had built up over 5½ years. Club owners could stomach Happy's sonorous ("Ah love baseball") speeches and his bourbon baritone renditions of My Old Kentucky Home, but they found Happy unpalatable whenever he tried to be baseball's "czar" in more than name. The most famous example was Chandler's year-long suspension of Leo Durocher just before opening day, 1947. Other ranklers: the 1949 suspension of Durocher for hitting a fan (later lamely withdrawn when investigation cleared Leo), an order this year to Owner Saigh to cancel a scheduled Sunday...
...will be a rogue!" cried Lucien Leuwen. No one was alarmed. It was a commonplace among French liberals in the 1830s, and especially among very young liberals, for disappointments in love to take this form. Lucien's heart had in fact been thoroughly shattered in Book One of a Stendhal novel, and now in Book Two the young man was determined to live without a heart. His father, a banker, was delighted, and chevied the boy into politics...
...volumes show a purpose as relentless as a ledger's-the ledger of a society in the red. Taken singly, the books show little of their social arithmetic. It is as though they had been kept by a brilliant clerk who, in the first volume, scribbled a love story over his accounts, and in the second, glimpsing the significance of the figures he was adding, covered the pages with invective. The Telegraph is one of the most savagely witty books ever written...
...last the young careerist finds himself involved with a beautiful woman-only to realize that she is making love to him solely because she wants her husband to become a minister, and that his own father, who thinks it would be rather good for Lucien's career to have a socially prominent mistress, has been encouraging the whole scheme. To this depth Lucien's ideals cannot let him sink...