Word: dears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Colonel's last days. The President had been a jovial man. He would tell a story of how he had loaned $200 to a "Rough Rider" friend to pay a lawyer for his defense after killing someone. Shortly afterwards, back came the $200 with a note: "Dear Teddy: I am returning the money I borrowed to help at my trial. We didn't need to have no trial, as we elected our district attorney." Then Mr. Roosevelt changed. After his defeat at the Chicago convention in 1912, "it was plain to those who knew Mr. Roosevelt and watched...
...Sheik (Rudolph Valentino). Dear old Rudolph Valentino, the fire eater with editorial writers, is home again. He is heart deep in Sahara sands in a picture obviously and not expertly echoing his famed success in The Sheik. He plays a young desert gentleman enamored of a dancing girl traveling with a cut-throat band. He is attacked, imprisoned, released, chased, and close-uped. The girl turns out brave and pure. There is the usual sand storm. It is a terrible picture, concentrating on a handsome actor of some ability. It will be atrociously popular...
...contributions, gasped: "Why, it would take weeks to get those figures together. . . ." Religious foundations had waited expectantly for the will to be filed. If alive he gave such vast sums to God, what would he not give dead? The Will made answer: "Following the example of my dear father, and believing it wiser to give liberally during my life to religious and charitable objects, I make no bequest of that character...
...three burning looks. And even as David Rock carves his love-pledge on his powder horn in the first chapter, so does saintly Anne draw it forth from beneath her shawl in the last chapter, during a conversation between the two that is full of Cur-woodian epithets like "dear," "sweet," "precious," "hallowed." Perdita
...searching study of contemporary life in a co-ed college has been turned by the cinema into the most tiresome kind of rah-rah worthlessness. The freshman loses more and more morals up to his junior year. The next year amid stupendous glory he wins the football game for dear old Prescott. Only the amusing and facile acting of Clara Bow rescues the picture from the limbo of the impossible...