Word: dears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weak my ear so, yes, you're right, you know what's got me, it's the band has got me. Why back in dear old Battleboro, where even the Baptists keep armored shells, there was no day quite like Memorial Day, so much so that all the villagers used to say. "Why it's al-most Memorial Day" and some of them even went so far as to say. "Why it's almost Memorial Day again." And then they'd get out their Fords, pack up a picnic lunch and leave town. But it never mattered how many left...
...Upon a recent visit to a very dear friend of mine in New York City (a Harvard graduate), I read your little booklet, 'The Harvard Fund...
...young lady, "because, if I did, I'd eat 'em and I hate 'em." The Copley Players' latest offering, entitled "The Oyster" as the subway billboards inform all and sundry, leaves one in the same frame of mind. Here are hundreds of people in the audience whooping away for dear life at a certain play that leaves this reviewer cold; the awful possibility that he might see a certain amount of humor in it and so be tempted to see other plays of the same kind has given him no peace since. It is at once depressing and injurious...
...ways as to what happens to the oyster when it leaves its bed. He gets mixed up in his chum's love affairs, attempts suicide because he has been called a traitor and traitors should be shot, and variously displays the pellucid simplicity of his nature, like the dear old boy he is. Norman Fanchild plays the Oyster; and he does things to an impossible role. The comedy of the piece is so broad that no mortal could look across it; he alone of the company plays it in the manner of a vaudevile farce as it should be played...
Miss Mackaill is a delightfully queer and intriguingly dear person (I can't forget those subtitles) and one just knows she has it. But the direction decided to make an intimate story more intimate by confining it to a series of close ups. And no girl, as the hook nose of the Armenian who admitted he was an Armenian and was therefore probably an Armenian since no one would call himself an Armenian if it weren't once suggested, can really be attractive beneath a microscope. Though she can dance, very well or more or less, as The Honorable Peter...