Word: fond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moscow the Soviet Government opened last week the first little Red schoolhouse for children of U. S. and British engineers and workmen now helping Russia with her Five-Year Plan. Fond parents faced painful alternatives. The school, as Soviet officials frankly admitted, will try to turn every pupil into a little Bolshevik. But the Government offered free tuition & textbooks, reduced streetcar fares and for each hungry pupil a heaping hot lunch at 15?-such a lunch as would otherwise cost in Moscow at least...
...with the invention of the crouching start for linesmen. He gained his greatest fame in 1911 as coach of the Carlisle Indians when the great Thorpe used to tear down the field snorting through his noseguard. Pop's only art in struction came from a village sign painter. Fond also of carpentry, he manufactures all his golf clubs. Said he last week : "Bob Zuppke, they tell me, wears a smock or a duster or something like that, but artist." not for me. I'm a painter...
...have caused countless horses to turn in their glue pots, for it is the ultimate disgrace since the advent of the horseless buggy. Ever since the horse lost the rest of its toos, it has trod on them to oblivion. Soon the use of the horse will become a fond memory, along with the mustacho cup; and legend will have Lady Godiva ride a tricycle through the storm of ticker tape that greeted her for her non-stop flightiness...
Fallon made money by the fistful but could not keep his fingers closed. He grew increasingly fond of liquor & women. Married, with two children, he would not handle divorce cases because of his Roman Catholic faith. Outside of that he would defend almost any criminal against almost any charge. He lived more & more wildly, grew less & less careful of legal ethics. Finally Hearst's New York American discovered evidence that Fallon had bribed a juror. In the ensuing trial, Fallon electrified the court by announcing he had in his pocket birth certificates of two illegitimate children of a certain cinemactress...
Julian, sensitive adolescent and only son, is fond of both his parents and hates to see them quarrel. His mother has abandoned love for religion; his father is in love with young Novelist Pauline but cannot get a divorce to marry her. Julian himself is enamored of Hildegarde, young thing of his own age; they agonize together over a world that was not molded very near to their hearts' desire. For a while it looks as though everything would go badly for everybody. Pauline tries to break off her affair with Julian's father when...