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Word: dearest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dearest Dear: Unfortunately, this is the only way to make good the frightful wrong I have done you and to wipe out my abject humiliation. You understand that last night was only a comedy. Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Death in Hollywood | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

...declared against cancellation but not against reconsideration of debtor nations' "capacity to pay." The Lausanne agreement sharply shrinks that capacity. The next step would be appeals to the U. S. to cut debts. Last week the Senate began to growl a warning to Europe. The President's dearest hope was that debtor nations would have the good sense to keep out of Washington until after Nov. 8 lest they complicate his campaign with an international issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Jul. 18, 1932 | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

...after righteousness begin to include a craving for Prostitute Teresa Burke, he hates himself so much that he decides to murder her. To lend the act godly significance, he pretends to himself that by making an example of Teresa he will scare the rest of Dublin out of their dearest deadly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Murder in Dublin | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

...great satisfaction to him to dash off the manifold things that come to mind, and it isn't his fault if they publish it. It is, of course, quite natural that he should feel badly at the conversation he heard, no man likes to have his nearest, dearest thoughts the butt of many an idle jest. But he is used to the indiscretion of youth, he knows how they speak in the wrath of the moment and he will pardon them. If they seek not pardon it matters little, he will go on writing whether or no. He will continue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 1/20/1932 | See Source »

...awkward and unsatisfactory after the perfect freedom of writing between people who can write." This paper love-affair was the symbol of a sincere affection, but the endearments they used might be misconstrued. Shaw says both exaggerated-he from ingrained Irish chivalry, she from stage convention. He called her "dearest and beautifullest," "dearest love"; she called him "sweet-heart," "my beautiful," tried to get him to call her "Nellen," but he wouldn't. Once Shaw wrote to her: "Dearest Love: send me one throb of your heart whilst it is still tender with illness. It will be hard again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: G. B. S. & E. T. | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

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