Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Robert M. LaFollette Jr., sailing for Europe, permitted himself to be interviewed on the subject of his father. Quoth he: "I am very fond of him as an individual. In real life, he is an entirely different man from what he is made to appear in the press. ... I know most people think of my father as hard, severe, cold-blooded and harsh, but he is none of those things. He has a marvelous sense of humor and has his tongue in his cheek at many things that happen in Washington. He is a good storyteller. I ought to know...
...business schools, extension business schools, correspondence schools, all waiting to snatch up the young man and turn him into a rythmic accounting machine, and then feed him as so much raw material into the steel factories, the aluminum factories, the 'widget factories', and the stool chairs of commercial life. Fond Fathers instruct sons to eat and be merry in their gay college years for there is serious business ahead...
...days when all the students were forced to take their meals in Commons, meal times were synonymous with disorder, not to say rioting. When Commons were forced by the College Library out of Harvard Hall into the newly erected University Hall, it was the fond hope of the Faculty that further disorder would be prevented by serving the meals in four separate rooms, one for each class...
...landlady, who has let him keep his room because of professional services rendered, brings in her parrot to he cured of some undetermined malady. Chubb thereupon conceives the brilliant stunt of pawning the parrot to buy breakfast for the three. No sooner suggested than acted upon, but, alas, for fond dreams of ham and eggs, a bewilderingly beautiful Red Cross nurse takes the money received to feed the starving Russians. The three hungry men grow desperate, but Chubb comes through with another "idea". All weddings mean a deluge of gifts and Doctor. Hampton has a small army of relatives whose...
...paper was said to be The Daily Graphic, daily illustrated paper equivalent to U. S. gum-chewers' sheetlets. Lord Curzon was, however, particularly fond of The Morning Post, owned by the Duke of Northumberland, and possibly it was this paper which printed the special edition...