Word: fawn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...house-watching, but for the idle pleasure which the ownership affords, know the pet, not as from Hell, nor yet as Rin-Tin-Tin, but in the full measure of what it is worth. If you would beat and kick your wife, and yet have her love you and fawn upon you, said William Wycherley, get a bitch...
Died. Professor Charles Melville Whitney, 70, Tufts Medical School urologist; near Lincoln, Me., while on his 49th consecutive annual expedition photographing wild animals in natural habitats. Famed in his collection is the photograph of a doe chastising her incautious fawn...
...university. After he loafs around home for a while, spending his time with a group of undistinguishable cronies who drink a greal deal and generally do not amount to much. Dan's kindly Uncle Mark is sympathetic when the young man confesses a longing for another summer at Fawn Lake, the resort where, during a previous summer, his love affair with Lois had begun...
...champion garbed in the full regimentals of a Marine Corps Major serving conspicuously on that Governor's military staff. In retrospect most observers agreed that Major James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney with his dress saber and gold braid stole the inauguration from Governor Wilbur Lucius ("Uncle Toby") Cross with his fawn spats and his red ribbon of the Legion of Honor...
...sword . . . was belted over a cavalry sash of golden silk with tasseled ends. His gray horseman's cloak was lined with scarlet. He liked to wear a red rose in his jacket . . . and a love-knot of red ribbon when flowers were out of season. His soft, fawn-colored hat was looped up on the right with a gold star, and adorned with a curling ostrich feather. ... He went conspicuous, all gold and glitter, in the front of great battles and in a hundred little cavalry fights which killed men just as dead as Gettysburg...