Word: fond
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through a stream of traffic joined in, caught the hat and returned it to G.K.-who promptly assured him that it should never have been rescued at all. "Then why on earth did you run after it?" "It's an old friend," G.K. explained. "I am fond of it, and I wanted to be with...
Unwilling Celebrity. Police Commissioner George P. Monaghan leaped into a car and set out for Brooklyn, where a jostling crowd of awed detectives were craning at Willie like bobby-soxers goggling at Frank Sinatra. Triumphantly, after suitable briefing and a fond look at Willie himself, the commissioner called in the press and announced: "We've just caught the Babe Ruth of bank robbers...
Westbrook Pegler, a Hearst columnist, is fond of recalling that 15 years ago the American Legion gave him a plaque for striking "some blows for 'Americanism.' " Last week Pegler struck some blows at the Legion...
...hope you hammer away at things like that until we get enough snap, pride and steel into our Government and its forces to make such conditions impossible. I'm not fond of vulgarities, but I must say it seems as if our guts are sagging...
...inflationary consequences of wage boosts, Murray pointed out that Jones & Laughlin Vice President Charles L. Austin, who was made President two weeks ago, recently was raised from $55,000 to $70,000. How did Moreell justify this raise under the circumstances? "Phil," cried Moreell, who is personally fond of Murray, "that is one of the best things I have done!" Snapped Murray: "If it's good for Mr. Austin, why isn't it good for Joe Doakes? . . . Now Admiral, do you think that Mrs. Celinsky, over on the South Side, gets any more groceries in her market basket...