Word: dears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story is told at a Harvard student who went into a final examination and within ten minutes handed in his blue book in which were written but two sentences: "Dear Professor, I have looked over your examination, but it doesn't interest me. Besides, I haven't had any breakfast, so I think I'll go out and get some...
Before a vast expanse of taut white shirts, Dr. A. de Graeff, Dutch Minister to the U. S., rose from his seat. Said he: "In Washington society I am frequently greeted, chiefly by ladies, as follows: 'And how is dear little Holland?' While I appreciate the sympathy, I take exception to the diminutive, and most strongly object to the 'dear.' At least as far as international law is concerned, I think that my country deserves a better name than 'dear little Holland...
Literature: Amid the serene literary chorus of his day, Howells' steady and somewhat dismal drone occasioned much neck-craning in the audience. His was the first-and persists the truest-note of realism that the U. S. has heard. "Dullness," he said, "is dear to me." Beside realism as we have it today, that of Howells pales, of course, is called drabness; but at the time, his refusal to succumb to the chivalrous romanticism his contemporaries had inherited from England made him, roughly, the Sinclair Lewis...
...comparatively simple affair to bring a child into the world. It is another matter to bring up a child once you have him. Civilized society is more or less agreed that here Nature needs much assistance, much understanding. Child-education is as prolific a subject as any other dear to the heart of man for public theorizing, wise and otherwise...
...Perhaps Mrs. Stoner does not know that this idea ... is not new, but has been radically advanced, logically analyzed and fearlessly uprooted in an illuminating children's book entitled Greetings and a Message to the Dear Children, by Augusta E. Stetson, C.S.D. (Doctor of Christian Science). ... In this lovely book, the author . . . enables a child to think intelligently, in response to the law of God, or Spirit...