Word: fond
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present opus concerns their progeny-and the virtues of the fathers are visited upon their sons. Athletes who never fail to win the game in the ninth inning, jolly-good-fellows, fond of an honest roughhouse, chivalrous to the weaker sex, lovers of God's outdoors, their simple lives are a constant succession of triumphs over scheming bullies at a rival military academy, bears, wildcats, inertia and German plotters who attempt to purloin an important dye formula from an old friend of the Rover family. From the time when an aeroplane (not driven by a Rover or there would...
...national politics as a supporter of Hiram Johnson. Immediately following the 1920 Convention he placed his services at the disposal of Mr. Harding. They were accepted, and led to his appointment to the Shipping Board. His social qualities did the rest. Able in conversation, brilliant at story telling and fond of golf-little wonder that he became one of the President's best friends...
Pride. The French, one remembers, are a gay and polite people, fond of dancing and light wines. Perhaps if they saw more of the English and American plays that are written about them they would be neither so polite nor so gay. At any rate, in most American drama, the French male character who is old enough to have a crêpe-beard has, in general, the choice between just two roles. He is always noble, and if he does not display his noblesse oblige by pursuing the chaste young heroine around and around the room with the scarlet...
Princess Yolanda is one of the most beautiful of European princesses. She shares her parents' democratic tastes; is a good sportswoman, being fond of riding, rowing, tennis, golf...
Rufus Kayne, bearing his father's millions lightly, was fond of his wife whenever it occurred to him, and was, in short, an eminently reliable and extremely solvent Babbitt...