Word: fonder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Historically, Catherine II (1729-96) was an ambitious, shrewd, capable ruler, fonder of sleeping with politically potent gentlemen than of romping with her guardsmen. Because, as in the case of mannish Christina of Sweden, such cold facts would make indifferent cinema, Catherine becomes gentle, amiable, lovable for her good heart and good sense. Arriving in Russia a bewildered, unsophisticated German child-princess, she learns she is not wanted by the heir apparent, Grand Duke Peter (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.). But she changes his mind when she inadvertently meets him. Married, she wins the trust of Russia's clever, lustful Empress...
...Hearat, from the true words of the prophet in the Boston American, October 26. We always take such modesty from Mr. Hearst with large lumps of salt. It is interesting to speculate on how absence from Harvard does not make its heart grow fonder...
...last week when the University of Wisconsin's Dr. Ross Stagner reported a survey which seemed factually to confirm its validity. Addressing the American Sociological Society in Chicago. Dr. Stagner said he had questioned a large group of boys & girls in their 'teens, found the girls invariably fonder of their fathers, the boys invariably fonder of their mothers. Dr. Stagner found that when children were reprimanded the Freudian "censor" (which ordinarily keeps the unconscious buried) was likely to be off guard, that boys then resented scoldings more from fathers than from mothers, that the converse was true...
...soon after the Civil War might well have caused more bloodshed. Rutherford Hayes was born in Delaware, Ohio, in 1822, a posthumous child, descendant of sturdy New England yeomen gone pioneering westward. Studious, ambitious, active, Hayes was "of a rather gay nature, a good talker, fond of men and fonder of women." He studied law, practiced it, but was glad when the Civil War came. One of the things he liked about war was freedom from shaving. He started to let his beard grow; thereafter to the end of his life only checked it from time to time. Hayes...