Word: fond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...playing that they stake him for a big-town game. Ingenuous Nick gets cheated on his first excursion; the next time he gets punched in the face. The third time he wins, and afterward uses a big-town barber shop as a blind for his elaborate gambling house. Especially fond of blondes, he pats a manicurist's leg and asks her for advice, keeps a blonde canary in a cage. He warms up his luck by rubbing a blackamoor's head, a hunchback's shoulder, the lapels of his own loud clothing. When the police send a lady...
...advantages of advertising during Depression, the relative merits of newspapers, radio, and cinema as mediums, government-control of industry, and the advantages of college training were other topics elaborated. Professionally fond of catch-lines, the advertising men felt like applauding the following...
Short, dark, tired-looking, she is superstitious, pessimistic, hates to be alone. She is fond of her dachshund, Robinson. She lives in sociable isolation at Manhattan's literary Hotel Algonquin. Other books: Laments for the Living (TIME, June 16, 1930); Enough Rope, Sunset Gun (verse...
...America by slow boat after hammering vainly at the doors of France, England, Germany, Austria, ad probably the U. S. S. R., Italy, Spain, and other close mouthed countries as well. Had she applied for entrance to Romania, the comedy would have been complete, what with a king fond of sport, and a queen mother delighting in heroics...
Quadragesimo Anno. As last week's 40th anniversary of Rerum Novarum approached, the roundheaded, 73-year-old man in the Vatican who 40 years ago was an energetic priest fond of mountain-climbing, and who since has shown himself one of the great Statesman-Popes, beheld the industrial and financial worlds again seething with a great unrest. In Russia the overturn had come, violently, and Mother Church had suffered there with Capitalism. Throughout the world, even Capitalists were saying, "Capitalism is not perfect. It must mend itself and mankind." Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, His Holiness Pope Pius XI, perceived...