Word: overfond
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Oxford don. I am a private detective. Is there something you'd like me to detect or are you just polishing up your elocution for next year's commencement?" Pure Chandler. So is the president's riposte: "The district attorney told us you were somewhat overfond of your...
...best writers on that ever popular, ever portentous subject, the American character, tend to be members of the family-but by a sort of adoption only. They are not quite at ease at home. They look about them with a preternaturally bright, not overfond eye. They like to go off into a corner and smile ironically when the rest of the family sings, "For he's a jolly good fellow...
...OVERFOND OF THE PAST, he brings confused eyes to the present, and he stretches the contrast between to ludicrous dimensions. On the Orient Express Henry smokes dope with a wealthy blue-jeaned backpacking American girl. Her father is in the CIA, her boyfriend a pop artist, and she can talk of nothing but the fact that her period is late and whom among her countless bedmates could the culprit be? Then Henry sleeps with her. The girl is a modern version of Aunt Augusta stripped of the illusions. She faces facts with the same irresponsible gaiety in which Aunt Augusta...