Word: fond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following the embargo of the War of 1812 and the collapse of the cotton market, Mrs. Blennerhassett wrote a melancholy elegy to her Ohio River home: Like mournful echo, from the silent tomb, That pines away upon the midnight air, While the pale moon breaks out, with fitful gloom; Fond memory turns with sad, but welcome care, To scenes of desolation and despair, Once bright with all that beauty could bestow, That peace could shed, or youthful fancy know To the fair isle reverts the pleasing dream. . . . In 1831 Harman Blennerhassett died. A decade later his widow...
...future Duchess of Gloucester is a very careful driver. She is not fond of speed and seldom travels at more than 30 miles an hour; this being one of the reasons why her semi-invalid father, the Duke of Buccleuch, prefers her as a driver to any other member of his family. Another keen motorist in the family is Lord George Scott, the Duke's youngest son, who is often seen driving along the Border roads in a 20-h.p. Armstrong Siddeley...
...Insurance Man" was the title of a fond article once written by Will Rogers. Client Rogers' trusted insurance man was immaculate, grey-templed John J, Kemp, broker to many a stage & screen star, member of the Million-Dollar Club, each of whose members sells $1,000.000 of insurance annually. Into successful Insuranceman Kemp's Manhattan office last week marched two detectives to arrest him for forgery and grand larceny. Sighed Prisoner Kemp: "I've been expecting this for seven years." Last year he had received an insurance dividend check for $1,524.51, payable to Mrs. Will Rogers...
...read them and find them too familiar, or, perhaps, flippant, will please remember that in the thoughts of the present generation these characters wear no halo. As a matter of fact, many girls and boys of today have never heard of them. They may have Bibles, presented by fond grandmothers, but they do not read them. Most of them have heard of Noah, or, at least, of his ark, and some are vaguely aware of the fact that Moses was 'holy,' but with these two their knowledge ceases." Typical Rolfe "songs": "Methuselah" Methuselah's biography is characterized...
...without pleasure that the Vagabond arrived in Cambridge a day or so ago. Times and indicia change but the old place seems to be as it always has been. Freshmen still have questions to ask; fond fathers still come to the Crimson offices seeking advice for their yearlings; Weld, Wigglesworth, all the freshmen dormitories are chattering with mother decorators; the Yard once again is buzzing with the seriousness of beginnings; the thought of the tercentenary has not disturbed old John Harvard; a young girl took his picture this morning remarking about his youth. And the happy Sophomores as they enter...