Word: dearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...college does not depend on any of these contests...No one will accuse you of having 'poor spirit' if you prefer to spend Saturday afternoon at the library rather than to attend a football game. No coach will urge you to play any game for the glory of dear old Harvard...
...dear dead days before the present millennium had set in, diplomacy was secret, diplomats secretive and suave. The late Sir Arthur Nicolson (1849-1928), onetime English Ambassador to the Sublime Porte (Constantinople), to Madrid, to St. Petersburg, onetime Permanent Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, is the subject of his son Harold Nicolson's excellent biography. Son Harold, approving the manners but not the machinations of pre-War diplomats, considers his father "an admirable example for the study of the old diplomacy at its best. . . . Arthur Nicolson was neither imaginative nor intellectual: he was merely intelligent, honest, sensible, high-minded...
...figure, Major Butt was also political counselor, social manager, playmate and secret chronicler about the White House. Shrewd enough to know the advantage of his confidential position and with a sharp eye on posterity, he wrote (sometimes from quotations jotted down on his immaculate cuffs) almost daily letters to "Dear Clara," his sister-in-law, Mrs. Lewis F. Butt of Augusta, Ga. In these, he gave a continuous account of private life in the White House. Six years ago was published the first series of the Butt letters covering the last year of the Roosevelt Administration. The death of Chief...
...Dear Mr. Bloser - Various people have called my attention to your use of my story, The Biography of Blade. . . . I am deeply interested to know what caused this use of the story on your part. I wondered if I could interpret it to my publishers or to Liberty. . . . Naturally in a story which involves me so many times I feel deeply concerned to know how it could have been used in this way with you - and especially why. I suppose this will be taken up with you by the usual avenues, but if you care to talk it over with...
...stockholders. Sometimes he appears in Tulsa on unnamed business. Often he arrives at his wells dressed in regular oil togs. But never have oilmen regarded Mr. Julian as one of them. They consider him a promoter rather than an operator. And last week they liked him less than ever. Dear to oilmen is curtailment. They dis agree on how to effect it and when, but as a principle it is their credo. No curtailer, it seems, is Oilman Julian. He has defied the rule, let his oil wells gush richly. Last week the Attorney General threatened and abandoned a plan...