Word: dears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dear Uncle Schelling
...possessed higher or more passionate epistolary powers than at the period covered by these letters (1879-1885).* Slashingly she underlines whole sentences and underscores two or three times her more emphatic phrases. The grand themes are first her grief at the political eclipse and final death of Benjamin Disraeli, "dear Lord Beaconsfield;" and secondly her rage at William Ewart Gladstone whom she would certainly have called a Bolshevik had the word then been invented...
...most terribly shocked and grieved, for dear Lord Beaconsfield was one of my best, most devoted and kindest of friends, as well as the wisest of councillors...
...Bubbles McCoy (and you can go ahead and guess who in Hollywood would play a part with a name like that) has an opportunity to do plenty of the familiar pouting, and the unintimate undressing that has made her so--well, that has made her. She twinkled at a dear old roue and the lady that is always nearby said: "She's got an idea." We didn't look quick enough, maybe...
...letter, in part: ". . . Dear Mr. Shaw, life is a great and serious affair. . . . You are not sufficiently serious. . . . The questions you deal with are of such enormous importance that . . . to make them the subject of satires may easily do harm...