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Word: dears (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...before any embalming is done, that an autopsy be made upon my body by some competent person." The competent person whom he preferred is Dr. Aleś Hrdlička, who is a doctor of medicine as well as chief anthropologist for the Smithsonian Institution. "Dr. Lamb was too dear to me," said Dr. Hrdlička when the job was put up to him last week. So Major George Russell Callender, curator of the Army Medical Museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Lamb's Will | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...Sirs: From one who is reluctant to write a "Dear Editor" letter, to those who constantly write them, this cartoon by Webster seemed pat! In case you have not seen it (though as it is copied* from the New York World the chances are you have)-it seemed to me to fit so many of the captious readers you apparently have (and are not alone in this). Do most people read for the pleasure of being critical and not for the absorbing interest of the knowledge gained? From one who admires the magazine's style and learns much. MADALEN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 29, 1929 | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...make you that. Like a sensible mother, the Duchess took her daughter into the country for the birthday party. "Are we going to G'annie's or G'anma's?" the baby Princess asked, and the Duchess smiled, "To G'annie's, dear." This was important. Her Majesty the Queen and Empress Mary is "G'anma." "G'annie" is the Countess of Strathmore. The particular one of "G'annie's" estates to which they were going was St. Paul's, Waldenbury, Hertfordshire; a vast, yet cosy rose-brick house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: P'incess Is Three | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...last week from the senior Leopold's will. The two trustee brothers get equal shares of $500,000. Soprano Mary Garden met Tenor Beniamino Gigli for the first time last week in Manhattan. Said he: "It is a great pleasure to meet a great artist." Said she: "Dear boy, I am so glad to meet you at last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 22, 1929 | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

When Clive told her he was marrying an unshackled modern, a newspaper woman, with dark hair brushed straight back like a boy, Monica was shocked, but contrived to ask lightly: 'Is anybody shackled nowadays, my dear?' 'Oh, we all are! . . . People who dress for dinner, I mean, and are presented at Court, and take in the "Quarterly Review...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dark Hester | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

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