Word: dears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter how green, stand groups of dark buildings inclosed by high stone walls. Within those walls there always lives a warden (in England they call him governor) ; within this warden there sometimes lives a tender heart. When inexorable Law demands that a prisoner be executed, such wardens may pay dear for their sensibilities...
...Dear, splendid England, with its clouds and its rain and its exquisite (though rare!) spring days, its summers without mosquitoes, and its foggy autumns. Do you feel grand and proud, British people, and realize that you are made of the salt of the earth ? and that you have a right to be even a little saucy...
...Whoops, my dear, and everything...
...confiscated them to prevent Inventor Sauvant from doing what he proposed to do?deliberately crash, with himself in the plane, to demonstrate a shock-absorbing device which he said would save his life. Mechanics took hold of Amour (so named by Inventor Sauvant "because the experiment had become so dear to my heart''), pushed it across the field, over the 500-ft. cliff...
...surprising or subversive, but the mere common sense of our predicament as passionate bits of earth and water." To dignify men's passions, men's predicaments, he had merely motivated his tragedies with themes al ready given classic sanction by the Greeks. A brief excursion into Christian mythology in Dear Judas, apparently taken from sense of duty, did not much advance his thought; neither did Descent to the Dead, a compilation of 16 poems written in Ireland and Great Britain on a trip with his wife and twins about three years ago, during which Poet Jeffers spent much...