Word: fond
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Father of the Bride. Spencer Tracy shines in a delightfully funny adaptation of Edward Streeter's bestseller about a fond parent's ordeal (TIME...
...young Emperor continued his Chinese lessons, studied Annamite chronicles, browsed through French history, literature and economics. He was especially fond of books on Henry IV, the dynast from Navarre who began the Bourbon rule in France with the cynical remark, "Paris is worth a Mass," and the demagogic slogan, "Every family should have a fowl in the pot on Sunday." Bao Dai put his money in Swiss banks (and thereby saved it from World War II's reverses), collected stamps, practiced tennis with Champion Henri Cochet, learned ping-pong, dressed in tweeds and flannels, vacationed in the Pyrenees, scented...
...made a dramatic contrast. The Emperor was young (then 32), plump, clean-shaven, bland-faced, fond of snappy Western sport clothes. Ho was aging (55), slight (hardly 5 ft. tall), goat-bearded, steelyeyed, usually seen in a frayed khaki tunic and cloth slippers. Ho Chi Minh, too, had gone to France for education. As a young man, he had been sent into exile by the French police of Indo-China because of his family's nationalist agitation. His father and a brother went to political prison for life. A sister received nine years of hard labor...
Liaquat is fond of saying that he came to Karachi as a refugee, just like 6,000,000 other citizens of the new state. Behind him in India he left extensive real estate, was amused recently to receive a notice from India's internal revenue department reminding him to pay his taxes...
Best Friend's Wife. Yet Main Line is far less than an adequate analysis of its subject, and something less than a good novel. For one thing, Novelist Biddle seems too fuzzy-fond of his world to see it clearly. For another, his story is a little too pat to be believable: a scion of one of the first families runs off with his best friend's wife; their noses are thoroughly rubbed in the mess they have made by both families and by most of their friends; then, gradually, family & friends forgive them...