Word: dears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Statement to S. F. Examiner: I am tired of not making any money. And I am sorry for all the lies I have told and all the trouble I have caused a very dear little lady...
...desperate, frivolous, austere human beings. . . . Here and there one will pause an instant and say something that touches the heart of even the most habituated builder of that thoroughfare, as when this poor man in the moment of death thought of the 'S. F. Examiner . . . and ... a very dear little lady...
...York again. Victor is leaning over the rail looking for mother. Harry's there. So is most of "Viccie's" family, but dear mother is ill. Helen meets the in-laws and suggests she and Victor buy some flowers for the dear thing. "Mom" is not unlike the mother in "The Silver Cord." She faints conveniently, dislikes her son's wife and is a repulsive prig. Not having seen the play, I cannot compare; that is fortunate, for one frequently finds fault with movies because they are not faithful reproductions. Much of the picture is painfully realistic: in places...
Berkeley Square (Fox). Peter Standish, a young American living in a London house inherited from his British forbears, finds himself one afternoon in a situation dear to romantic playwrights: transported into the Past. In his drawing room he finds the Pettigrew family, comfortably sure that they are living in the 18th Century. It appears to them that he is an earlier Peter Standish, their Colonial cousin, back from the Revolution, engaged to marry Kate Pettigrew. It is a stormy day and the Pettigrews are a little astonished to find, when Peter Standish walks in, that his feet...
...Untermyer scoffed: "This is just a play to the galleries." Said Mayor O'Brien to a newshawk as he hurried out after listening meekly in the background: "My dear boy, I've got a great big hole down here [patting his paunch]. I've got to hurry along and get some lunch...