Word: fawning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty-two red legs carrying eleven redskins were throbbing over the 480-mile Redwood Highway between San Francisco and Grant's Pass, Ore. The red lips of Miss Redwood Empire, "little fawn" of the Hopi Indians, greeted John Mad Bull of the Karook tribe when he staggered across the finish line last week-the winner of the marathon. He had covered the 480 miles (longest footrace ever held in the U. S.) in 7 days, 12 hours, 34 minutes. He was rewarded with a $1,000 prize, to which he added $50 to purchase an automobile...
...advantage even over other young gentlemen who start fashions in men's harberdashery, for the Princeton man cannot wear his swanl sport suit to the dinner table, not the Eli his fawn-colored flannels. Until the New Haven debutantes can persuade Chapel and High Street debutantes to give dinner parties, and until Princeton can move its Gothic walls within twenty minutes of Sherry's or the Bellevue- Stratford, the gentle sons of Harvard will continue to enjoy their advantages...
...Louis the Fourteenth; to Edward Sutherland, cinema director, in Man- hattan. Married. Mrs. Marion Cleveland Dell, daughter of President Grover Cleveland and the now Mrs. Thomas J. Preston Jr. to John Harlan Amen, Manhattan lawyer, son of the late Principal of Phillips Exeter Academy; at Tamworth, N. H. Divorced. Fawn Gray, famed a year ago as the night club dancing girl who so alluringly interested senile Harry K. Thaw for many an evening; from one Theodore MacFarland, her groom after a two-day party; at Baltimore. Died. Felix E. Dzerzhinsky, 49, "The Black Pope of Bolshevism." (See RUSSIA...
Dogs wag their tails and fawn...
Eddie Foy, comedian, was there with his new wife. Harry Wills sat by, in fawn suitings, looking glum. Jack Johnson and Kid Norfolk chatted with Battling Siki, who grinned the while, not understanding much English...