Word: dears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dear delightful Marion...
...FASHION IN THE YEAR 1764-65.Cleone Knox (Edited by Alexander Blacker Kerr) Appleton ($2.50). The mettlesome Irish nymph of these confessions reveals herself teetering a-tiptoe upon the springboard of chastity in a day when only a very slight push was required to set a young thing splashing for dear life. Her papa removes her from the bold and importunate proximity of her enamored kinsman, David Ancaster, who has literally essayed to climb into her boudoir. In London and on the continent she finds gallantry galore, some of it quite as much to her taste...
...Dear" had only fainted or collapsed after the jump, attendants might yet have saved his life by following certain veterinary procedures, by rubbing him vigorously with a brush, or a "handful of straw or twigs, or coarse towels, or even some coarse-woven wearing apparel. If aromatic spirits of ammonia were handy, they should have mixed one or two tablespoonfuls in four to six ounces of water and let the cloudy mixture trickle over the horse's tongue every 20 minutes. But this is a heroic measure of last recourse...
THIRD SPILL OF SEASON FOR WALES AS HORSE, OH, DEAR, FALLS DEAD...
...Quiet ladies took the ejaculation seriously, echoing it with a "Good gracious" or a "Mercy me." Metropolitan wags relapsed into the facetious falsetto with which they retail remarks that appeal to them as effeminate. Honest men stared, read under the headline an article which informed them that "Oh, Dear" was the actual name of the Prince's horse. These men had a curt criticism of the headline writer's awkward and flippant line. "Stupid," they said...