Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under President Taft who was fond of Sazerac cocktails containing absinthe, as was President Harding, absinthe was outlawed throughout the U. S. by Decision No. 147 under the Pure Food & Drugs Decision of 1912, remains outlawed today despite Repeal...
...Fritz of the Landsturm was a sentry on the border. A kind old man, he was fond of children, who were fond of him. What worried him was that Marie, aged 14, and her friends played too close to the live wire. Marie used to share delicacies with the old man, welcome relief from a diet of black bread and potatoes. Suddenly Old Fritz, bewildered, was transferred and Marie was arrested and condemned to death. Later her sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and after the war this "stocky, wide-eyed Jeanne d'Arc" was awarded a British decoration...
...regular officer, and took orders (when he felt like it) from his superiors, but the North persisted in regarding him as an irregular, capable of every atrocity from horse-stealing to killing the wounded. Biographer Swiggett says Morgan obeyed the rules of civilized warfare, but admits his men were fond of ambushing Federal pickets, of suddenly displaying a flag of truce to get themselves out of a tight corner. Braxton West Pointer, who was Morgan's nominal commander, disliked him, disapproved of his aims and methods. But Morgan's gallantry and success in raiding through Kentucky and Ohio soon made...
...Muller, though not at all out of sympathy with the budding doctrine of Aryanism in Germany, used the word with seemly caution. Born in Dessau in 1823 to a German poet and dissuaded from, attempting a musical career by Mendelssohn (his godfather), Max Muller studied Sanskrit, comparative philology, grew fond of metaphysics, went to Oxford in 1848 to supervise printing of his Rig-Veda translation, stayed in England the rest of his life, became a naturalized Briton, died at last, in the fullness of years and honors...
...production. He was born in 1888 in Cincinnati where his father was head of the Western Union relay office. After studying at St. Xavier College and the University of Dublin, Walter Connolly made his professional début in 1909. Just after the War, he married Actress Nedda Harrigan. Fond of horse races, Walter Connolly wanted to be a jockey until he found it interfered with his diet. He weighs 190 lb. stands 5 ft. 9 in. Hollywood has not changed his habit of breakfasting at noon. A better comedian on stage than off, Connolly once amused himself, while ailing...