Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people of a State. But last week under them 120,000,000 people-everybody in the U. S.-joined together in their might and majesty and put to death a Federal murderer near Fort Lauderdale, Fla. It was grim business. On Aug. 7, 1927, James Horace Alderman, fond of being called "King of the Rum Runners," was navigating his liquor-laden craft some 35 miles off the Florida east coast when overhauled by Coast Guard Cutter No. 249. "King" Alderman, a begrizzled, bespectacled salt of 48, was removed to the cutter. Suddenly he whipped out a hidden revolver, became captor...
...worked with Dockstader's minstrels, then for the Shuberts. He was the first minstrel to get down on his knees when, in the chorus of a song, he came to the word "Mammy." Now a multimillionaire, third* richest actor in the world, he remains capricious, moody, fond of asserting his independence and of practical jokes. He likes to take long motor trips without planning them, starting at night for some distant point and singing on the way. His companions are usually less important showpeople who laugh at all his jokes. He gives money to beggars, is shrewd at driving...
...Minister in previous cabinets, popular for his eccentricities with Japan's masses, Economist Shishi has a son, Kazuhiko Hamaguchi, at present a research worker in the New York branch of the Bank of Japan. Graduate of the Imperial University of Tokyo, onetime intercollegiate jiu-jitsu champion of Japan, fond of tennis, eager for golf, Son Kazuhiko shares a small villa at Bayside, L. I., with an office mate. Interviewed last week he giggled politely, admitted that his father likes walking and reading, wears kimonos at home, European clothes on the street...
Prime Minister Mussolini made no comment on the decision. He had hoped to receive not only the unclaimed estates of Italians in the U. S. but of Italians in Argentina, who largely control that country's business and who, fond of Italy, seldom become Argentine citizens...
...really indigenous to Australia or whether it was brought there by prehistoric man from Malaya. More important than academic wrangles is the problem of recently imported Alsatian Shepherd dogs. It is claimed that they kill sheep, so the Alsatians must go. The mere possibility that they might grow too fond of the dingo, produce offspring combining the intelligence of the Alsatian with the speed and ferocity of the dingo fills sheep growers with alarm...