Word: dearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some 30 years back; the story ends at the time of the late Tsar's coronation. Hero Clim Samghin is a pale, near-sighted youth, long on brains, short on emotions, whose inamorata says to him: "You're slippery. . . . And you have no words which are dear to you." Clim is a precocious but unattractive child, becomes a clever but unattractive young man. He goes to the university at St. Petersburg, transfers to the university at Moscow, joins the kaleidoscopic crowd of young intellectuals, who drink, smoke, make love, talk, talk, talk. A sensualist, without strong affections, Clim...
...Dear Old England. A group of English aristocrats impoverished by the War and living in abandoned tramcars on the Sussex Downs, like dispossessed peacocks trying to thrive in old packing boxes on an empty lot, would be sufficient suggestion for almost any kind of play one might want to write. Henry Francis Maltby found fun in the predicament of these elegants; he wrote a comedy about them which, whether or not they ever existed, greatly amused London, is now on view in Manhattan...
...though his Church was dear to him Nicholas Frederic also carefully tended the business which his father left him and which made possible all the Brady donations to that Church. It was Anthony Nicholas Brady, father of Nicholas Frederic, who founded the Brady fortune, at one time among the greatest in the U. S. Anthony, born in Lille, France, went to Troy, N. Y., in 1857, worked first in the barber shop at Albany's old Delavan House. At 19 he started a tea store, soon opened branches. His first utility interest was acquiring stock in Albany Gas Light...
...dear Lord Rothschild," begins the Balfour Declaration, and the remainder of this personal note written by Mr. Arthur Balfour as Foreign Secretary on Nov. 2, 1917 is in the elegant and casual tone he took on all occasions, private, public and forensic. "My dear Lord Rothschild, I have much pleasure in conveying to you on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations, which has been submitted to and approved by the Cabinet...
Pastor Henry Burnham Kirkland of Manhattan's North Church: "Our Lord included no women when He selected His twelve Apostles. ... To accept them would place a stigma much greater on our dear Lord. I am convinced that 90% of the women don't want it, and that the other 10% are the agitators. Most of the cults have been started by women. Who started Christian Science, Unity, and Theosophy? A woman...