Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wharton's Almanac." A favorite of Manhattan sophisticates, he has introduced on his show a lady glass-eater, who quietly munched razor blades during her interview, a ladies' sportswear manufacturer, who described how he would paint Bach's music, many a trull, tramp and taxi driver. Fond of kidding Major Bowes, McCoy often bills his program as "Second Lieutenant McCoy's Opportunity Hour...
...vocational and racial backgrounds, representing a true cross section of Canadian Youth-constitute in themselves a violent negation of the Whitehouse logic. Their theme song on camp route marches was There'll Always Be An England-and it arose from both hearts and lips. They are also genuinely fond of the U. S.-and after the destroyer deal I heard more than one rendition of God Bless America. To infer that these sentiments are incompatible is nonsense...
...remaining five years of his life, Diamond Jim showered the doctor with presents and confidences. He never smoked nor drank, remarked Dr. Young, but used to say shyly: "There is one other little pleasure I am very fond...
When it comes to millinery, Mme. Schiaparelli expressed herself as in favor of simplicity and especially fond of fur chapeaux. "I have always disliked all these veils and things," she admitted with a smile, "sometimes I do indulge in complicated hats, but it's just to give fashion editors something to talk about...
...literature begins on courthouse steps, in general stores where men chaw, whittle and tell tales. With a fond ear for briarhopper speech the Tennessee Writers' Project (WPA) gathered 25 well-chawed, well-whittled anecdotes from the Great Smokies to the levees in God Bless the Devil-(University of North Carolina Press; $2). Their themes are lady-killing fiddlers, horse races, knife duels, preachers, hunting dogs, log-cabin adultery, possums, milk snakes, the witch of Red River who chased brave Andy Jackson back to Nashville...