Word: fondest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Collins, brother of Novelist William Wilkie Collins; second to Painter Carlo Perugini of Italy. Aged 10, Kate Dickens taught her father a polka to dance with her at the birthday party of her brother Charles Dickens Jr. Author Dickens, many years after, specially insisted that the polka lessons ("my fondest memories") be included in his biography by John Forster...
...restaurant and the homes of Vanderbilts. He cleared the ground for the Woolworth Building, Equitable Building, N. Y. Cotton Exchange, Bankers Trust Co. When he razed the 13-story Chemical National Bank in downtown Manhattan he displayed a sign: "JACOB VOLK-THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE FORCE IN WALL STREET." His fondest dream was to raze the Woolworth Building...
...mock convention, Houston is slated to observe a battle as merciless as New York did four years ago. But the University is hardly to be taken as a measuring scale. The opposition last evening had a curiously immature appearance; there were more favorite sons suggested than the fondest mother states ever dreamed of owning; there was a deep and mysterious undercurrent of exchanged votes. The party may be troubled by as much internal dissension as its miniature, but the peculiarly local difficulty of missing delegations will not hamper...
...Parks as the most likely vendor of masticulatory delight. He ate, as every one else is bound to do who chooses this place to dine, a good, substantial dinner. But all the while he was eating it he was speculating; speculating on the possibilities of extravagant fancies finding their fondest desire. Great bowls of red and white were constantly being borne in to other customers; they might contain the hope of a being hungry for spring, and for strawberries. And then he had one. Of course; that he should have done so goes without saying...
...Hammonds did not suggest the appointment of her husband as state health commissioner, nor has she suggested other appointments, not first recommended by men supposed to be friends of clean government. The resolution [to dismiss Mrs. Hammonds] was introduced by a Senator whose fondest hope is the destruction of the Governor. Only three votes were mustered on the resolution demanding Mrs. Hammonds' dismissal. Then the sensible Senate voted to expunge the ridiculous resolution from the records. Mr. Johnson has many faults, among them a lodge-room belief in the honesty and decency of men. He is learning politics rapidly...