Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brummel of the Mauve Decade, she fled the U. S. in 1912 because the advent of the automobile made Manhattan "impossible." In Paris, she organized many a gala dinner which royalty attended, devoted much of her time to le phare de France, an institution for blind war veterans. Extremely fond of animals, her pet was a show chow, Chi-Chi. When she wrote its autobiography, the late Rudyard Kipling was moved to remark: "My, what an observing...
...ideas are pretty cute: what if a sailing ship were loaded with honey and the ghosts of the bees that made it stung the crew to death? What if the silk worms, roses, bees went on strike? What if Manhattan's pigeons were all killed? Miss Crane is fond of alliteration's artful aid: "Clerk and crier quaffed the quiet of the quarry." When she feels like it, she can rhyme "thorn" with "faun," play hob with King's College English. Readers who like lilt will find plenty of it, in the great tradition of Robert...
...dark, serious young man named John Albert Wilson went to Chicago to study under the famed Orientalist. Born in Pawling, N. Y., he had graduated from Princeton, got a teaching job at American University in Beirut, Syria, grew so fond of visiting archeological sites in his rattletrap automobile that he once had to walk the 18 miles from Bab to Aleppo in pitch darkness because in his eagerness to be off he had not properly strapped on his spare gasoline supply. After John Wilson got Chicago's Ph. D. in Egyptology, Breasted sent him on an expedition to Luxor...
...Think of the poor lepers annoyed with this dirty comrade! But the clean Dr. Hyde was at his food in a fine house. Damien was headstrong. I believe you are right again; and I thank God for his strong head and heart. Damien was bigoted. I am not fond of bigots myself, because they are not fond of me. . . . Damien believed his own religion with the simplicity of ... a child, as I would I could suppose that you do. . . . But the point of interest in Damien, which has caused him to be so much talked about and made...
Dorothy Bennett yields to none in her admiration for Bennett's literary capacity, and was obviously very fond of him. But neither her admiration nor her affection kept her from seeing him with shrewd maternal eyes...