Word: fawningly
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...centrifugal force. Another odd prop was offered by Maynard-DiCesare, with the two blades offset at the hub to give greater bite. Edo showed the world's first detachable amphibious gear for land planes. Most resplendent exhibit of all was Colonel Roscoe Turner, strutting about in a fawn-colored uniform...
Taking the stand, Actress Hayes testified that the cinema interviews were in accurate, that she had never made such quoted remarks as "MacArthur has a fawn-like face, maddeningly beautiful." After three days, Miss Frink suddenly called off the suit, paid court charges. Said her attorney: "She didn't want a cent. She just wanted a chance to tell her story...
...small consolation for the British in this dramatic draw. For, as last week's matches at the Ridgewood (N. J.) Country Club ended, they found themselves roundly whipped, 9-to-3, in a tournament distinguished more by the U. S. team's off-the-course uniforms (fawn slacks, brown gabardine jacket, white silk shirt, team tie) than by the quality of anyone's game. Taking possession of the trophy for the next two years, the U. S. professionals added weight to the tradition that no visiting Ryder Cup team ever wins...
...unwritten laws of their social code were so rigidly upheld: "Without these rules of the game, indeed, all human life in nomad Arabia would have become extinct." The love of Faris and Tuema was gay, poetic, eloquent and chaste. To Faris the girl was "as shy as a gazelle fawn." He cried out: "I shall never be at peace until the slender blossom bends before the storm of my love." Awed and impressed by such tempestuous passion, Carl Raswan received the confidences of the lovers, was present at their meetings. Faris would put his hand over Tuema's heart...
Though Her Majesty has been called "middle class," the fact is that the Royal House of Orange is on top of the Netherlands to a degree not achieved by royalty anywhere else. Rich men in other countries fawn socially on their sovereigns, never think of the Crown as an economic power. Dutch millionaires doubt if any of them is richer than their Queen. Her ancestor, William I, subscribed $1,600,000 to the original $14,900,000 capital of The Netherlands Trading Society for exploitation of his Indies. Few investments have ever been more fabulously profitable or more tightly held...