Word: fonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nearness makes the heart no fonder, an Amherst survey team decided recently when it polled 250 Smith girls about their dating preference...
...rich, landowner father had no use for poetry, and wanted his son to train for the law. Ovid obediently did, but he was far fonder of Rome's artist colony and social whirl. His love lyrics were popular with all but the Emperor Augustus, a dour Cromwellian sort, who found Ovid's lively spirit immoral and subversive. In A.D. 8, he banished the poet to lifelong exile in a Black Sea village, but not before Ovid had capped his fame with a masterpiece which never saw more than first-draft form, the Metamorphoses, or the Stories of Changing...
World War II has many grievous memories, but for those who ever did a tour on the "Rock" (persistently ignored by USO troupes and widely ballyhooed "name" entertainers), no fonder memories exist than those regarding that fabulous creature, Nature's caricature of humanity: the goony bird...
...like many an indolent, skeptical fellow, Melbourne was fatally attracted by vigorous, strong-willed women. His wife, Caroline Ponsonby (known in Whig circles as "the Fairy Queen"), was fond of her amiable husband, but fonder, it was said, of such rare thrills as being "carried [into dinner] concealed under a silver dish cover, from which she emerged on the dinner table stark naked...
...pair of playwrights who are married, it concerns a pair who are divorced (after two Broadway failures). In a freak legal wrangle, because they have both thought up a play with the same plot, they get a court order to write it together. Propinquity makes hearts grow fonder, and they decide, if the new play clicks, to remarry. Then they decide that love outweighs success. and to remarry whatever happens...