Word: fond
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard men gave thanks that the Lampoon's rebuke had come, since it had to come, from fond, dutiful brothers and not from a stranger without the gates; from the Harvard-manned if not Harvardized World rather than from, say, the New York Herald Tribune, whereof the dominant figure is, of course, Owner-Editor Ogden Mills Reid, Yale '04 (and a vigorous alumnus, especially in everything appertaining to water polo), one of whose right-handiest men is City Editor Robert Cresswell, famed Princetonian ('19) ; or from some underling of disaffected and disapproved Publisher William Randolph Hearst, Harvard...
...enters with the Third Term Baby, explaining that Calvin is very fond of the infant...
...bees are in the tree, the coon is in his shelter, all's right with the "South Lot."* The President announced last week that he and Mrs. Coolidge are very fond of their wild swarm of bees. However, the President does not eat honey because it once made him sick when he was a little boy. As for the raccoon, which was sent to the President from Nitta Yuma, Miss. (TIME, Dec. 6), it has won its way into the Presidential affection and will not be sent to the zoo. An eternal coonship has been founded...
...farmers the President had fond words: "The whole question of agriculture needs more careful consideration. While the Government is not to be blamed for failure to perform the impossible, the agriculture regions are entitled to know that they have its constant solicitude and sympathy." If the farmers' desire for assistance is "matched by an equally sincere and candid consideration of the different remedies proposed, a sound measure of relief ought to result...
...Penethen, who, at the end of the year, warned him to leave town, adding: "I'm fond of you as I've never been fond of any man since my poor husband died." He embraced .and kissed her. "I'm staying," he said...