Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long blank verse narrative (or rather, psychological drama), Matthias at the Door is a typical Robinson poem. Matthias is an oaklike man, successful, preeminent, proud. The world envies and respects him; his few friends are fond of him, though they see his pride is vanity...
Chef of the hotel (officially: "Director of the Waldorf-Astoria Kitchens") is Alexandre Gastaud, a pupil for 40 years of the famed-to-gourmets Auguste Escoffier. Chef Gastaud used to cook for food-fond Edward VII. Director of the Towers will be Commendatore Guilio Gelardi who is being loaned by Claridge's of London for the fall and winter seasons. But best known of the Waldorf potentates will be Oscar Tschirky, 65, maître d'hôtel at the old Waldorf, with whom the tycoons and celebrities of many lands are proud to claim acquaintance. During...
There should be at least one Babbitt course in every Harvard man's curriculum if only because he is Harvard's most honouredd prophet in every country but his own. This particular one carries on the good only family fond; Babbitt, I., vs. Rousseau et al. You'll enjoy Les Confessions (the English editions are expurgated) along with an apple and a fire on a few could autumn evenings; and when spring rolls around there's La Neuvelle Heloise to be read aloud on the shores of Walden Pond. You'll learn all about conchiliomania (a disease...
...This is the work of a diabolical Chinese murder gang. Professor Ivantsov is known to have been very fond of Chinese antiques. He was frequently seen in the Chinese quarter near Trubni Square searching for bargains. As you can see for yourselves, all these packages have been tied up in the manner of a Chinese laundry. The new municipal laundries have put thousands of private Chinese laundries out of work. Is it too much to suggest that this horrible murder and robbery is a laundrymen's revenge...
...that he was the best dressed man on the campus, glowered quizzically over his spectacles as he talked with his students. Quietly, firmly he made his impress upon Illinois, abolishing naughty fraternities (Kappa Beta Phi, Theta Nu Epsilon), fraternity "hell week," freshman hazing, student ownership of automobiles. He is fond of proper fraternity life, interested especially in his own Alpha Tau Omega. Like Edward, Prince of Wales an accomplished fancy-worker, he knit sweaters for soldiers during the World War, has lately turned his attention to tatting and crocheting. He gave Alpha Phi Sorority a fine tat-edged luncheon cloth...