Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...came to no good, bringing up in a police station whence he had to be rescued by his father's secretary, J. L. Thornton, who bustled him to the capital. Senator Heflin awaited his boy's homecoming on the station platform. Instead of "hell," he, a fond parent, gave his prodigal a full-bosomed embrace and loving forgiveness. The reconciliation was interrupted when Senator Heflin demanded, but failed to obtain, the arrest of news cameramen who flashlighted the family group. Later, Heflin Senior issued his customary statement: his son's tippling was a Roman Catholic plot. Alone...
Dealer Demotte owned a statuette of the Virgin and Child which he called a 13th century Limoges enamel. He was fond of describing how Queen Isabella of Spain, one of its owners, had caused a niche to be cut under the pommel of her saddle to contain the statuette. With this tiny shrine she could jaunt while worshiping, or worship while jaunting...
...first tragedy of my life was when the man I loved and should have married was made a prisoner early in the War. Now I am fond of nobody and have no feelings?I only adore...
Telegrams of congratulations to the happy parents of Herbert Hoover Smith of Vinton, Iowa take precedence over massacres in the Balkans. The wife of the President receives a delegation of the Camp Fire Girls in the Blue room; the President waves a fond farewell to the friends from home while the Secretary of the Navy is detained in the anteroom as a suspicious character. Far away is the echo of a voice, "that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth...
Auctioneer C. W. Harrison climbed up behind his desk, rapped with his gavel. "We regret that His Royal Highness has had to relinquish the sport of which he was so fond," he began, "but we admire his patriotic action at a time when additional duties devolve upon him through the king's illness-it goes to the heart...