Word: fond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cornell-educated George J. Hecht, who wanted to be a publisher and was fond of children, launched a monthly magazine "to educate parents" which he named Children, The Magazine for Parents. Sanguine Mr. Hecht hoped that in time 100,000 U. S. parents would subscribe to his journal of tips, stories, articles on child health, psychology, care. This week the tenth anniversary number of Children, The Magazine for Parents, now called simply Parents' Magazine, went to 370,000 readers. Franklin Roosevelt sent congratulations. Publisher Hecht was prepared to guarantee his advertisers that by next year Parents' Magazine would...
...likeness was so taken when I was 12 years old, but there was the excuse of a head of tresses long and thick, which a fond parent wished to memorialize for the reason that they were rapidly falling out. Possibly Mr. Hamilton wishes similarly to preserve to posterity both sides of the smile destined to come off in November. (MRS.) M. R. BOUFFIOUX...
That the U. S. had a great new gold vein in its lap was the fond hope of the West last week.* Whatever it was, the Jumbo Mine, in the Awakening district of Nevada's Slumbering Hills made headlines from San Francisco to Manhattan. Discoverers were two old prospectors, "Red" Staggs and Clyde Taylor, who spied the yellow flecks on the frozen ground of this sagebrush desert on Jan. 29, 1935. Three months later, in need of cash, they sold their find to George Austin, grizzled, 63-year-old keeper of the general store, hotel and filling station...
...stop the gossip that was threatening his job. At home she saw a still more sordid end to romance when Kirby Townsend married, communicated a venereal disease to his wife, was finally crippled in an accident while driving with a village bad woman. As a schoolteacher Selma was fond of a boy named Dwight Fleming, until Dwight spotted a famed bandit, won a reward of $725.00 for giving information that resulted in the bandit's death. Then Selma learned a little more about marriage when a tormented, ill-favored husband fell in love with her. She was appalled when...
Next Best Thing Devoted Nazis are fond of telling with utmost seriousness about the great German industrialist who found his daughter moping, tried to cheer her up by telling her she could have whatever she wanted for her birthday. "Alas, father, rich as you are, you cannot get me the only thing I want." "And what is that, daughter?" "Oh, if only I could have a child by Hitler!" With many a melting, impressionable Gretchen now in this state of mind, "Handsome Adolf" Hitler was seated last week at the Olympic Aquatic Stadium when a buxom female from Norwalk, Calif...