Word: dearer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boar's Hill, near Oxford. Careless of the social niceties, when his tea is too hot he pours it into the saucer to cool it. Careful of pennies, he will stamp out of a tobacconist's shop in high dudgeon if he thinks the pipe-tobacco a halfpenny dearer than it should be. His life has been unexciting. He pays little attention to young critics who dismiss his poetry with the same adjective...
Seriously, however, I cannot be bribed by any man or group of men. Nor can I be intimidated. Indeed, the little woman herself than whom no one is dearer to me, didn't speak to me for days after I announced that 'Massachusetts would go for Smith. So don't be surprised if I pick Smith in a lot of other states from now on. For Mrs. Joe, a saintly woman in her way, is inclined to talk too much. I may have to do something about her later. She will be a handicap to me some...
...loving mother to thee was dearer...
Last week Margarete Matzenauer was again the mother "dearer than Bertha" to her son the Prophet- this time Giovanni Martinelli, though Mme. Matzenauer has often been "dearer" to the late Enrico Caruso...
With tears in his voice, if not in his eyes, the senectissimus of all U. S. Senators stood up and pleaded with snarling filibusterers for the passage of his Second Deficiency bill, dearer to him than all investigating of slush funds. He, Francis Emroy Warren of Wyoming, 82, Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, had made this plea more than 20 times during the 40½-hour Reed v. Reed wrangle. He had spent half of one night on a Senate lounge when he should have been home in bed. His snow-white moustache drooped; his eyes were sunken, bleary...