Word: fond
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have never seen Blithe Spirit, if you are particularly fond of Noel Coward, or if you happen to know one of the performers, the production at the Agassiz is excellent. Otherwise it is, at worst, a solid non professional performance...
...Littauer Fellows were supposed to benefit the School as well as themselves. Planted among the younger students, they could dispense advice from experience picked up during their terms in Washington. Their presence would bolster the administrational esprit de corps of which Littauer is so fond. And most important, they were an antidote to the ivory towered influence that flows from Littauer's brother-sister relation with the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
Life was good for Govind, the little Hindu tailor. His shop, "The Handsome Gent's Tailoring Mart," buzzed with the profitable whir of a double row of sewing machines. His workmen were fond of him. He had a lovely, loving wife, two healthy babies and a third on the way. Good Hindu that he was, he tried to be a good man, gave alms to fakirs and lepers, never ate meat, and hoped for his soul's betterment in a new reincarnation...
Cummings himself wrote: "I can express it in 15 words, by quoting The Eternal Question and Immortal Answer of Burlesk, viz., 'Would you hit a woman with a child? - No, I'd hit her with a brick.' Like the burlesk comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement." His typog raphy is also sometimes a cover for irreverences - and occasionally for obscenities...
...with "a single, terrible.eye . . . black as the patch which hung on the other side of the lean, skew nose." His smile is a grim baring of carnivorous teeth; he grasps his cocktail glass in "a black claw" consisting of "two surviving fingers and half a thumb." He is fond of discoursing on the proper use of infantry. "You must use them when they're on their toes . . . Use them . . . spend them. It's like slowly collecting a pile of chips and then plonking them all down . . . It's the most fascinating thing in life...