Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Your fond and loving...
...will not last. Sooner or later, the movie stars will go back to Hollywood, the public will get tired of bond-selling stunts, bond sales will fall. In the year 1942 they will probably be 15-25% below the Treasury's fond $12-billion hope. And with war costs up to $5.5 billions monthly and still rising, even Henry Morgenthau weakened last month, admitted that to pay for the war and keep inflation under control the U.S. must "supplement the voluntary bond purchase program with . . . forced savings...
...trip to this well-stocked metropolis should be a particular treat for the Indians in the Green tribe who are fond of their fire-water. A campaign started by Dartmouth Inter-fraternity Council to revise rules in respect to drinking has received considerable attention from college authorities, and may ultimately result in a curb on the consumption of beer and hard liquor on the Green campus...
...Walter Lanier ("Red") Barber, 34, had been Elson's teammate in broadcasting the Series ever since 1936. A wavy-haired, wise and wide-awake guy from Mississippi, he is the "Verce of Brooklyn" by virtue of having been official announcer at the Dodgers' baseball games since 1939. Fond of statistics, he made an excellent foil for Elson, since his chatty, easygoing Southern voice was practically impervious to excitement. Acutely aware of his personality, he refers to himself at regular intervals in a fatherly way as "the old redhead." His reported yearly earnings: above...
...Ample proof that 1942's term of "wolf" for a determined satyr is not new. Wrote a visitor to White Sulphur in the 1830s: "Unless you be young and foolish, fond of noise and nonsense, frolic and fun, wine and wassail, sleepless nights and days of headache, avoid Wolf...