Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...encouragement, an elderly reader in Fond du Lac County last week told him she was putting him on her prayer list, and the Congregational minister read the editorial to his Sunday-school class. Two ladies from the W.C.T.U. welcomed him over to their side...
...against his own will, became more than any other man responsible for the bomb, its use in 1945 and its future. It was an ordinary, uncurious man without any pretensions to scientific knowledge, without many pretensions of any kind, a man of average size and weight, wearing bifocal glasses, fond of plain food, whiskey-&-water and lodge meetings. It was Harry Truman, 32nd President...
Queen Mary (she hates being called the Queen Mother) is as fond of the flicks as of the footlights. Her taste in films is catholic. This season she has already seen The Seventh Veil, Sailors Do Care (twice), the world premiere of Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra, and a sexy piece called The Wicked Lady, in which the earthiest dialogue had been discreetly toned down for one performance. (Next day Queen Mary alertly dispatched a lady in waiting to see the show and report what she had missed...
...toothy grin, a penchant for flying, no allergy to work. On school vacations he worked as a "fly boy" in the pressroom at his father's New York Mirror. By the time he was 23 he was president of the American, and nobody objected. He earned the fond regard of Manhattan cops and firemen by plugging to get them higher pay. Occasionally he went nightclubbing with Irving Berlin...
...zone, anti-U.S. organizations began to crystallize. Most of them consisted only of a dozen or so young men who just seemed fond of playing cops & robbers. So. in their early days, did some of Adolf Hitler's brown shirts...