Word: dears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unbounded domesticity has consisted of smoking cigars over the evening newspaper while his good wife sits by, bored. Come a pair of Mr. Fosdick's onetime sweethearts to vamp him. For a while the sirens disrupt the family, giving Mr. & Mrs. an opportunity to realize how dear to their hearts was that old homely destitution. They make up, promising each other that "everything shall be just the same as it was before." In the end John Fosdick is seen smoking cigars over the evening newspaper while his good wife sits by, bored...
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GRAY SHEEP-Dillwyn Parrish- Harper ($2). Dillwyn Parrish, brother of Anne Parrish, the Perennial Bachelor lady, last year came forward as another sharp-eyed anatomist of life's nobodies. Repugnantly dear to him is the tragicomedy of middling people-middling honest, middling happy, middling alive. He called his first novel Smith Everlasting. The Rev. Fred Rain of Gray Sheep is another victim of everlasting Smithness in body, mind and spirit-a figure at once lovable, pitiful and contemptible from the equivocal nature of Smithness, for which another name is stagnation...
...codicil of King Ferdinand concluded: "I cannot close without remembering with all my heart my dear son Carol, for whom I wish a happy time in the new life which he has chosen against our wishes. ... I demand that he shall not return until all the constitutional authorities allow...
...newsgatherers the U. S. Chief Delegate, Hugh S. Gibson, exclaimed: "We could be happy with either [Britain or Japan] were t'other dear charmer away...