Word: dears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dearest friends. . . . While I feel all this very deeply, and while I appreciate the expression of confidence and esteem on the part of the bishops of the Church, yet I am convinced that I can far better serve the Church where I now am, and therefore, my dear Bishop, I believe it to be my duty to decline the election...
...Manhattan, where tall buildings have begun to cause concern, the Broadway Association last week noted, on the basis of new surveys, that every story of a skyscraper brought 1,000 more people to a neighborhood. But land is so dear on Manhattan Island that buildings must be tall to earn enough income for expenses. Thus last week Irwin S. and Henry I. Chanin, constructors, announced that their new building at Lexington Ave. and 42nd St. would be 625 feet, 52 stories high. The location is as costly as land within the "Broadway district," a strip of streets about 200 blocks...
...Dear Norton, bide with us today...
...INGENIOUS HIDALGO! MIGUEL CERVANTES - Hans Ryner - Harcourt, Brace ($2.75). Ingenious also, Arthur Ryner has imagined the biography of Cervantes in the days of his age, when, as he finised Don Quixote and wrote Persiles y Sigismunda, he saw the dear sun waning and Death, be cause he laughed at it, "coming to him like a raillery." Author Ryner has well conjured the situations - Cervantes in Madrid, surrounded by poverty, influential enemies and with Death for a friend in need. Cervantes in Esquivias, draining the gay fountain of his wit, writing a happy and fantastic story as if thus to postpone...
...answered her sweetly, "My dear...