Word: fond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...middleaged, married (with a daughter, two sons), well-to-do (he owns a town house, an island and a Norman castle), with an admired position, with such intimates as William Butler Yeats. AE (George Russell). James Stephens. Dr. Gogarty lives sparklingly in Dublin. Once fond of driving his Mercedes at breakneck speeds along Irish lanes, he has now taken to the air. Says he: "It's the only excitement left the middle-aged man except the divorce courts, and it's far more respectable." On his latest visit to Manhattan (last winter) he gave reporters a lively half...
...Those fond of old songs and customs have one last hope for a revival of the old days, i.e., the return of beer and ale which may engender a new congeniality unknown to our generation. Our over-sophisticated "veneer" may be washed away by libations of "brown October ale," and the imbibition of the cup that cheers. Bring on "Handsome Dan," turtle-neck Y-sweaters, peg top trousers, bicycles, mustaches, and "Bright College Years" once more. The Yale News...
...advanced student, the seminar is decidedly the most stimulating method of study and discussion, and Harvard should use it far more. The choice of a field, both for general study and thesis work, needs to be greatly widened. More emphasis is needed, as the late Professor Babbitt was fond of saying, on the relation of one study to another, of history and economics to literature, of philosophy and psychology to each other, of sociology to any of these. Let those who wish to explore the small obscurities of the past do so, but do not discourage a man from taking...
...their parents' names, most of the lyrics in Whether a Dove or Seagull have a determinedly casual stance which suggests a male forbear: U. S. Poet Robert Frost, to whom the authors acknowledge an obvious debt in their dedication. Like him, they refuse to sentimentalize their fondness for nature, insist on its hostility to humans as well as its charm. But while robust Poet Frost nevertheless finds permanent solace among his Vermont hills and pastures, in the minds of Poets Warner & Ackland the bryony and woodbine of which they are fond are entangled with feelings of transiency which wither...
Harold Nicolson tells the story of Arketall, Lord Curzon's famous valet, who was unreasonably fond of the bottle. Lord Curzon was at Locarno, or some such place, representing Great Britain at big peace negotiation. As the day for signing the Pact approached, Arketall got more and more irregular in his habits, and on the morning of "Der Tag," he was quite in his cups. Sitting in bed, with his morning cup of tea, the great British diplomat gave Arketall the sack, told him to decamp within a half-an-hour. An hour later, hurriedly dressing for the meeting...