Word: fond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second feature is entitled, "The Case of the Howling Dog," and a strange case it is, indeed. Warren William is capable as the lawyer who unravels the most complex of murder mysteries. The story is carefully worked out and will satisfy those who are fond of being confused by the intricacies of mystery tales...
...issue of Sept. 3, p. 21, you state: "Under President Taft, who was fond of Sazerac cocktails containing absinthe...
...tall, fond of gardening and antique furniture, a resident of Greenwich Village. She dresses in tweeds, has two dogs and five alley cats, uses a dark stain to give her hair its golden appearance in her current role. Her husband, Frank J. Ross Jr., is a building contractor. Having reversed the procedure with which most handsome young actresses start their careers, she will presently return to Hollywood to make a picture for Columbia...
...with dialog patterned after Irvin S. Cobb's quiet Judge Priest stories and permitted but a minimum of head-ducking. Funnyman Rogers is a less hackneyed philosopher than he was in earlier films. Time is the slow Kentucky '90s. Plot is concerned with a judge who is fond of his nephew who is fond of the pretty but poor white trash next door. Not until the courtroom scene discloses that a reticent, no-account town character named Gillis, once convicted of murder, is not only the young girl's father but also a great Confederate hero...
Nura got the idea for her story from a reminiscence of her childhood in Kansas City. So fond was her older and only sister of buttermilk that her parents used to say: "We'll have to grow a buttermilk tree for you." Nura patiently waited for the tree, was told when she asked that they grew only on wishing rings...