Word: dears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only a few years ago he had refused to permit her name, the name of a divorcee, to appear in the yearbook of a charity home that she herself had founded in his diocese. "What I fail to understand," wrote Mrs. Belmont, "is, why this change on your part, dear Bishop. ... I am still a divorced woman...
...Dear Editor of the Crime...
...rules, but even the newest comments by Work and Whitehead and all the other gentlemen of the green plush. For it seems that when one cuts high does win and that you just must know or the Ladies' Whist and Euchre (prize a doily isn't it just dear) will kick you down the back stairs of your local reputation and Mrs. J. De Riff Punkle will cut you every time you meet her at the linen counter. Such is the effect of bridge upon the mind American...
...Dear Agnes...
...Significance of this "novel at success" is literary rather than social. Sam Smith is more compelling, as a man than as a "message." And this is strange, for Author Norris writes with more purpose than distinction. Like William Dean Howells, dullness is dear to him. Yet out of a hazy, conventional reconstruction of the Welsbach-burner, balloon-sleeve, trust-forming era of U. S. life, Sam Smith achieves the form and force of actuality. He joins the great company of the memorably commonplace...