Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newspaper editors are not as a rule fond of pressagents, but Dexter Fellows is a pressagent extraordinary, and he ballyhoos the most widely beloved of U. S. businesses. On the annual news that the circus is coming to town, even the dourest city editor is moved to let his newshawks soar far from earthy fact into the empyrean of their fancy-especially when the harbinger of this perennial Noah's Ark is such a downy dove as Dexter Fellows. In the 43 years Harbinger Fellows has been pressagenting for the circus, he has never failed to get favorable free...
Investigator Fritchey followed closely the Grand Jury's graveyard probe. One day, while looking over the subpoenaed books of the Crown Hill Cemetery, Investigator Fritchey, who is fond of detective stories, noted that a block of 1,400 graves had been sold for $82,000 to a Mr. Dacek. Into Investigator Fritchey's mind flashed the astounding possibility that this curious name might be an anagram for that of a Cleveland policeman whom he had long suspected of undue prosperity. The Cuyahoga County prosecutors shortly found that Investigator Fritchey's hunch was correct. "Dacek" was one Louis...
...Deal. Democrats hastily analyzed their list of other possibilities. They could hardly spare Postmaster General Farley from his management of the Presidential campaign, though he craves the position of Governor. Tammany also dislikes 44-year-old Robert Houghwout Jackson, now an Assistant Attorney General whom New Dealers regard with fond eyes for his work as assistant general counsel of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (TIME, March 4, 1935 et seq.). More likely possibilities, if Governor Lehman refuses to accede to a frantic '"draft" movement which developed in the wake of his announcement, are Senator Royal Copeland; New York...
...Bilbo saw a chance for a comeback, returned to Mississippi to try for the U. S. Senate seat held by Hubert Stephens. Loyal to his junior colleague, Senator Harrison backed Senator Stephens let him have most of the Mississippi patronage available that year. When Bilbo won, Harrison, though not fond of him, saw the wisdom of renewing his generosity. He introduced the gnarled little man to the Senate, showed him how to get New Deal money for his constituents, let him have nearly all of their State's WPA patronage. Last year Senator Bilbo used it, on the expiration...
...Soviets. In 1928 Mencken published a collection of these attacks (Menckeniana, a Schimpflexicon). Born in Baltimore of German grandparentage. Mencken began to write "seriously" at 12, took T. H. Huxley (see below I for his god at 16. An amiable skeptic, short, fat. boyish to look at, he is fond of practical jokes. Some suspect his philological delvings are merely a form of involved japery. but fellow-philologists take him seriously, call him the authority on U. S. English...