Word: fawning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vivid scarlet above the deep maroon of the coachwork. Through the windows the crowds could see the King in an admiral's uniform, sitting erect and wooden-faced under his gold-peaked cap, while the Queen, with her plump, pink-and-white face, powder blue hat, grey-fawn furs, was all smiles and gracious waves. The Welsh Guards Band played God Save the King as the coach went...
...Herald Tribune "has gone Anglomaniac. ... In promoting internationalism under the influence of worship for everything pertaining to the British nobility, whom they fawn upon, the [Ogden] Reids have aligned themselves with domestic crackpots...
Psychiatric Stickler. Chief of the New York Mental Hygiene Service is bronzed, fawn-eared Psychiatrist Charles Brown who, as an A.A.F. flight surgeon, supervised treatment of some 15,000 neurotic or psychotic Army flyers during the war. Now a civilian again, he has a staff of 31 resident and consulting psychiatrists, and an elaborate assembly of psychiatric paraphernalia. It includes equipment for electric and insulin shock treatments, a six-channel electroencephalograph which can measure electric impulses in six parts of the brain at once, a collection of brand-new drugs, a "psychodrama" theater, movies, soundproofed ceilings, a relaxing lounge...
...fawn-colored chamois skin, tacked to a brim with fourpenny nails, by Mrs. J. W. Springer, Robinson...
Saint or sinner, Joseph Smith Jr., founder and prophet of Mormonism, possessed a personality so powerful and fascinating that men, and women too, have sought down the years to "know his heart." One of these is Mormon-born (but Mormon no more) Fawn M. Brodie. What she has learned she tells with skill and scholarship and admirable detachment in No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith (Knopf...