Word: dears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...traces of Anti-Saloon League complicity, but Mr. Pinchot said that there was no use, since the League had thown him over and followed Senator Pepper as the better bet," although Pinchot was the bone-dry candidate. Senator Reed observed: "They could be happy with either if the other dear charmer were away...
...Dear Madam: There must be some mistake. I sent you no flowers...
...writings of the modern apostle of moderation, Stuart P. Sherman. His happy philosophy sees in the new order of life a perfectly natural reaction against the complacency of the old regime which led to that inverted climax; the greatest war in history. In his essays, such as "My Dear Cornelia" there is a sanity and a sense of proportion lacking in the more radical novelists. Mr. Sherman shows considerable ability in distinguishing highways from byways...
Professor Charles E. Rugh of the University of California has given an old saw a picturesque rebirth. The colleges, he asserts "heap knowledge upon a student like hay" and then say "stack it yourself." This complaint is nothing but the platitude, dear to all educational declaimers, that method is more essential than fact, reason than memory. Still admitting the great age of this truism, one cannot but be glad of an occasional restatement to refresh an ideal...
That the college is capable of doing such a thing in such a spirit, that, in a crisis in a spectacular major sport, it can avoid the hysteria that is proverbially expressed in the phrase of the over-excited substitute: "Why, sir, I'd die for dear old Rutgers" is a sign that the attitude of the University in regard to athletics is well advanced in a metamorphosis that no one can regret. It is not that undergraduates are being drawn out of an interest in athletics: It is rather that their interest is being transferred from a false dependence...