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Word: dears (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Very few things that Mr. Lynch sees in an athletic way are not "in the bag." Even college athletes, according to his views on the subject, don't die for dear old Rutgers without the Rutgers A.A. assuring responsibility for funeral expenses. No master is a hero to his valet, and very few athletes are anything but names to Mr. Lynch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Issues Confidential Guide to Press Box Personalities and Tactics | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

Meanwhile we are let into the secret that bootleggers have been using his house as a storing place for everything from champagne to bad gin. Kay, the bootlegging girl--oh, dear, what is the younger generation coming to?--appears on the scene, chased by bootleggers. It turns out that she had rescued Jimmie from--drowning one day when she happened to be speeding by in a mahogany speedboat, and it had been love at first sight all along although on account of complications, loyalties, and the rest of the usual good old hokum, everybody isn't happy until...

Author: By G. P., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/9/1927 | See Source »

...brothers has been graduated from the school, and a second is still in it. The last mentioned followed the herd struck too, but not with his parents' consent. M. THURSTON WARD West Lafayette, Ind. P. S. Be sure and give Purdue all credit due for its performance against dear old 'Arvard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 31, 1927 | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...Ivory Door. A play which may perhaps grow dear to high school graduating classes galled critics. In it they saw the doleful spectre of A. A. Milne burlesquing himself unconsciously. The Ivory Door, shockingly sweet, extracted from flabby matrons purrs of "adorable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 31, 1927 | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...mother, there is a return to the maudlinity that kept Author Deeping so long upon the lists of the unheralded. Probably even the fact that Alex St. George is a British soldier will not serve to excuse his habit of seizing his wife and making to her "a passionate, dear murmuring," on three separate occasions. Nor will the fact that Author Deeping has become a notable writer by the virtues of his previous books serve to excuse the sloppy writing with which he has crowded this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Oct. 31, 1927 | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

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