Word: affectionately
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever he felt about the place then, he now remembers the Waif's Home with great affection. "I could do just about what I wanted and we ate regular. I feel at home there even now. I might end up there an old man some day, seein' over...
"I am," Q once admitted, "a period piece." He would never buy a car, had a neurotic fear of cities, disliked much modern poetry ("Has T. S. Eliot ever written three consecutive lines of poetry in his life?"). His own affection lay in the past -the whole past of English...
Owls are supposed to be the wisest of birds, and the one who took up residence in a Yard treetop over a week ago must be having a good sagacious laugh. No example of the species Scotiaptex Nebulosa, or for that matter no example of any predatory bird, has even...
In Gulliver's Travels, Swift describes the "struldbrugs," the unhappy old men & women who could not die but were "uncapable of friendship, and dead to all natural affection . . . The least miserable among them appear to be those who turn to dotage, and entirely lose their memories."
The most prolific was Charles Hamilton, whose works (under a score of bylines) are discussed today with an "affection verging on reverence." In 30 years Hamilton turned out a total of 45 million words of popular school stories, and made the name of his most famous character, Billy Bunter, the...