Word: dearest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...usual, Mrs. Baldwin hovered in her husband's background. She seems the "perfect wife" of Mid-Victorian days, submerging her personality in that of "my dearest husband," and busying herself in odd moments with causes unquestionably worthy. Her triumph was last week, that no smart anecdote or pert story was "hung" upon her name by the American press...
...consideration. It has, I confess, brought back to me many happy and sacred memories of the nearly 20 years during which I was permitted to live and work among the people of the West, for whom I have a deep affection, and among whom I number many of my dearest friends. . . . While I feel all this very deeply, and while I appreciate the expression of confidence and esteem on the part of the bishops of the Church, yet I am convinced that I can far better serve the Church where I now am, and therefore, my dear Bishop, I believe...
...tinker with the calendar is Professor Marvin's dearest hobby. He would like to supplant the Gregorian calendar with one of his own, which has 13 months to the year, four weeks to the month, and one extra day each year which would be a super-holiday. Such a calendar, said the able professor, would run until the year 17600 A. D. with no ill effects, except to deprive women of Leap Years, which will come only once each 600 years...
...What Senator is perhaps the dearest, sincerest enemy of the Anti-Saloon League...
...born of Scotch Presbyterian and farmer stock near Mansfield, Ohio, not far from the birthplace of his dearest enemy, Anti-Saloon League. His parents took him away to Iowa at the age of 3. From behind the plow and with a not unusual schooling, he entered a law office in Cedar Rapids. He ate up the law like so much beefsteak. Iowa, in that era an uplift-crusading Republican community, was no place for this pertinacious Democrat. At 26, he went to Kansas City, Mo. One of his first political jobs was county prosecutor. He secured 285 convictions...