Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anderson is definitely associated with Chicago and its literary circle. Perhaps he has been somewhat pampered by that fond parental influence. But his is a remote and gloomy influence, springing, alas, more from translated Russian novels than from the drama indigenous to Middle West wheat fields and the strenuosities of the stockyards...
...heroine chosen the right partner for life?" asks the novelist. Well, has she? Whether she has or not this is a modern fairy story with the Beautiful Princess and the Handsome Prince and the Elderly Lover translated into up-to-date characters which should please all those who are fond of the novels of the second writer to come from Stratford-on-Avon...
...they grieved that paternalism was "still upon the throne" but prophesied hopefully that the time could not be far distant when Yale would "progress to a system of voluntary attendance at classes and church." "Then," continued the editorial, "we may look for a development of individualism and bid a fond farewell to the mold that stamps every Yale man alike." It was not perhaps a very radical program; perhaps most of its radical features appeared in their final editorial, yet it was strong enough to stir the incoming board to a staunchly conservative reaction...
...glories of Harvard," an eminent member of the Faculty is fond of saying, "that its professors disagree so radically." And he generally proceeds to disagree. So it is one of the glories of the United States that two schools holding as widely differing opinions as the socialistic and the capitalistic can live, as it were, jowl by jowl, and express their views freely. From such a condition of affairs the country need fear nothing. A state is in danger not from expressed but from suppressed opinions. Should citizens cease to disagree they would cease to live, becoming merely...
Prince George is a lieutenant in the Navy, and, after the Prince of Wales, considered the most attractive of the King's sons. A thoroughgoing sportsman, he is fond of dancing, is adept at strumming jazz tunes on the piano...