Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speech in Kansas City, he denounced fixed charges in favor of equity dividends. To make his point he invoked the following authorities: Aristotle, Lactantius, St. Luke, St. Basil, St. Chrysostom, St. Ambrose, St. Thomas Aquinas, Dante, Calvin, Cotton Mather, Andrew D. White, Chesterton, Will Rogers. Fond of parties, he holds his cigaret between his teeth, dominates the room with talk. Regularly he falls asleep at 10 p.m., wakes at 11:30, talking. A lover of word games, playful mental feats, he is often to be found contorted on the floor, acting out some far-fetched pun.* Battling with a fellow...
...Augustine, Fla. is proud of being the oldest city in the U. S. It is also proud of having in its ancient vicinity one of Florida's newest and most successful tourist-getters: the big Marineland aquarium recently built 18 miles to the south of it. It is fond of broadcasting superlatives about Marineland's two tanks (of steel, concrete, tile, brick and cement), the biggest and deepest aquarium tanks in the world, the only aquarium cleaned by divers with vacuum cleaners, the only one where some animals are fed under water by hand, the only one where...
...science classes at School Street Elementary School, in Westbury, L. I., pupils study live mice, rabbits, ducks, chicks. They are fond of their pets. One day last October, they got a ten-pound Poland China shoat, six weeks old. Three hundred science pupils took a vote, decided to nickname him Fat Stuff. They made him a nice clean pen with a big trough, running water and a straw bed. They watched him get three vaccinations against hog diseases. They took delight in feeding him tidbits, fed him so well that in three months he grew to 120 pounds...
...Crane Fond of Russia...
...number of Autry fans, however, when added up, is colossal. Recently, on a tour of Great Britain, where he was living proof of the fond British belief that the U. S. is still quite woolly, he outdid Gracie Fields's attendance records in her own bailiwick, in Dublin paraded before 750,000. In the Motion Picture Herald's, annual Exhibitors' Ten Best for 1939, Autry was top Western star for the third straight year, a record made phenomenal by the fact that his pictures rarely if ever have hit the big, first-run theatres, but pile...