Word: fond
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...favorite last week was a dark bay colt named Bold Ruler. "Sunny Jim" Fitzsimmons, famed trainer of Nashua, had fond hopes of Bold Ruler's succeeding his retired champion. Calumet Farm was close to passing up the race. It had a leggy colt named Barbizon, who had won four out of five of his starts, but he seemed to have fallen into a slump. At the last minute, Trainer Jimmy Jones decided to gamble, put up the $10,000 required for last-minute entries and frankly labeled him a long shot. Barbizon, said Jimmy, "reminds...
Bertie was not allowed to mix or play with other boys. His first tutor, Eton's Henry Birch, was ordered to report in detail on the little boy's failings. When, instead, Birch became fond of Bertie, he was sacked. Birch's successor, Frederick Gibbs, had everything that the creation of a problem child demands. He kept "story books of all kinds" out of Bertie's reach, reported regularly that the frustrated little boy was "excited," "disobedient," "very angry," "rude," "half silly." Bertie responded, complained Gibbs, by "throwing stones in my face...
...addition to classroom politics, Herman was fond of history, biography and a study of the U.S. Constitution. Other pleasures: Greek and Roman classics, Gibbon's Decline and Fall. He stayed late only if the class was debating. Other days he went home to his chores. One afternoon in 1930, while Herman was picking turnips, the house caught fire and burned to the ground (with one casualty, a German shepherd dog named Al Smith). Gene, who was spending weekdays in Atlanta as agriculture commissioner and only weekends at home as a father, took advantage of the fire to move...
...those grown fond of the din, the 1956 Republican National Convention may well have seemed dull, and, compared to the Democratic meeting (or past G.O.P. conventions), it was. There were no fights, no cliff-hanging situations. With hardly a discordant tock to its tick, it ran off with multi-jewel precision. At the flick of a hand from Hollywood's George Murphy, the convention entertainment director, singers of all shapes and sizes appeared to entertain the delegates. At the drop of a G.O.P. hero's name, sign-toting Young Republicans in varsity sweaters snake-danced down Cow Palace...
...married (1926) sack-shaped moneybags Edward West ("Daddy") Browning, 51, six months later set the 1920s roaring at the decade's wildest divorce suit, in which she testified that Daddy (a "grey-haired old wowser," Damon Runyon reported) sometimes crawled around making "funny noises," was inordinately fond of a pet African honking gander; of a brain hemorrhage and liver failure after a fall in her Manhattan apartment. Peaches lost her divorce suit, but after Daddy died (1934) won $154,971 as his legal widow, later was married and divorced three times...