Word: dearingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late Vladimir Nabokov will always be for me the epitome of the third stage of name-dropping. Vlad was always a sweet man, with more taste and savoir faire than anyone I'll ever meet, but he could never refer to anyone without calling him "my dear friend." "My dear friend Phyllis Schlafly just dropped in," he once told me. Another time--this was with John Updike at the Algonquin--Volodya turned to me and, with his mouth still full of mashed potatoes, whispered into my ear, "Reminds me of the way my very, very, very dear friend Rusty Staub...
...dear Jean-Pierre and Nicole...
...hotel about noon, Hinckley asked the desk clerk whether he had received any telephone calls. There were no telephone messages in his key box. Then at 12:45 p.m. he sat in his room and began to write a five-paragraph letter on lined note paper. It started: "Dear Jodie, There is a definite possibility that I will be killed in my attempt to get Reagan." It ended: "This letter is being written an hour before I leave for the Hilton Hotel. Jodie, I'm asking you to please look into your heart and at least give me the chance...
...Dear London friends...
...gives his generation an outlet for its fantasies, sexual and otherwise. He also provides a blanket of security for the over-40 crowd by poking fun at its socially unacceptable desires. A mother might turn to her husband at the end of a play by Simon and say. "See, dear, that's why we haven't been swapping partners lately...