Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...share. His business, still increasing, has tripled since 1920. He spends an average of $4,000,000 dollars a year on advertising. Red-cheeked, dewlapped and genial, given to exercise, to backslapping, to the indulgence of strange whims that usually turn out to be investments, and fond of uttering pungent aphorisms on salesmanship, of gravely handing new acquaintances packages of his gum, a supply of which he carries around with him at all times, William Wrigley Jr. is at 68 well-equipped to enjoy his amazing prosperity. In the conventional fashion of rich men who believe it is time...
...Berengaria she danced with Thomas Mellon (nephew) of Pittsburgh. "I'm not particularly fond of dancing. ... I don't dance at all in London...
...Chester, son of a famed sea-admiral, might find satisfaction in the fishy products of the recently acquired General Sea Foods, Inc., of Gloucester. But the chief beneficiaries of General Foods Corp.'s expansion are Broker Edward F. ("Lucky Ed") Hutton and his golden-haired, oyster-and-pearl-fond wife, Marjorie Post Close Hutton, daughter of Charles W. Post of Postum and Toastie fame.* Hutton wealth is disbursed in gorgeous grandeur. Invited to the famed Manville-Bernadotte wedding in Pleasantville, N. Y., Mrs. Hutton drove to Grand Central in one of her six Rolls-Royces,* made the 28-mile...
William Wrigley Jr. of Catalina Island, baseball (Chicago ''Cubs''), gum and the Wrigley Building, is stout, bluff, good-natured, always ready to clasp the hand, to pass the Spearmint. He is fond of telling how, many years ago, he paused before a South Clark street restaurant, with holes in his shoes and snow on the ground, and spent his last dime for the "Biggest Bowl of Bean Soup in Chicago." Mr. Wrigley will be 68 on the last day of the present month...
Your account of Swan-Upping on the Thames was most interesting. I was surprised to learn that such intelligent and progressive people still do such apparently silly things, tho, of course, I had heard that the British were, or seemed ta be, quite fond of things ceremonious and ritualistic. However, I won't laugh at them now. First, let British readers suggest some things which U. S. people (I know of no other adequate term for inhabitants of U.S.A., and always hope TIME will coin one) do which seem equally as foolish to the British. Of course Prohibition will...