Word: fond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morning Prayers in 1886 and his appointment as Plummer Professor it fell to him to interpret and administer the policy of complete freedom in religious worship. In this task he was vigorously supported by President Eliot, Phillips Brooks, and by other members of the Board of Preachers. He was fond of saying that there was no such thing as a "compulsory prayer," and he derived great satisfaction from the fact that attendance at Morning Prayers, though availed of by comparatively small numbers, nevertheless constituted the largest voluntary daily attendance at a Protestant religious service to be found anywhere...
Among Mr. Brisbane's likes were Mussolini, Calvin Coolidge, big families, aviation, and the Emperor Nero, who he vowed was history's most admirable, character. Mr. Brisbane was fond of describing executions, took a detailed and almost professional interest in Nazi decapitations, seemed to derive great satisfaction from the thoroughness with which the Italians mopped up Ethiopia. Some people & things of which Mr. Brisbane did not approve: atheists, "half-baked" college boys, gamblers, "brain-trusters." In his editorials Mr. Brisbane long affected to despise professional pugilism, liked to point out that "a gorilla could lick them all." Actually...
...home & Dominion statesmen at his home, No. 145 Piccadilly. As Duke of York he aroused only the slightest public interest, but British aristocrats said with particular satisfaction of the Duchess of York, "She is one of us," and a popular knowledge that the late King George V was most fond of their little daughter "Lilybet" (together with her marked facial resemblance to Queen Mary) insures her great popularity with Britain's masses...
Evidence indicated that Pekin Man was 500,000 to 1,000,000 years old, since he was found with remains of bear, deer, rhinoceros, hyenas and rodents of the early Glacial Age. He also appeared to be a cannibal especially fond of eating from the head, since the heads discovered seemed to have been severed from their trunks. No traces of tools or fire were discovered. The third and fourth skulls found this year were buried ten feet lower than the first two, were therefore considered to be more ancient. To Dr. Weidenreich's delight, they were both mature...
...dinner Mr. Johnson eat several platefuls of Scotch broth with pease in them and was very fond of the dish. I said, 'You never eat it before, sir.' 'No, sir, but I don't care how soon I eat it again...