Word: dears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...times the ambitious ends of life have made it seem to me lonely, but it has not been. You have given me the companionship of dear friends who have helped to keep alive the fire in my heart. If I could think that I had sent a spark to those who come after, I should be ready to say good...
...money on two objects: to help others and alchemy. He held huge courts every day in his garden and entertained all the learned men of all religions, rajas and beggars, saints and downright villains, all delightfully mixed up and all treated as one. And then his alchemy! Oh. dear, night and day the experiments went on and every man who brought a new prescription was welcome as a brother. But this alchemy is, you know, only the material counterpart of a poet's craving for beauty, the eternal beauty. The makers of gold and the makers of verse, they...
...Idlers at Agassiz Hall, is unusual among amateur performances in that the play was distinctly less interesting than the acting. Such at least was the verdict of the CRIMSON critic, who saw little to his taste in the coy tale of two Campfire girls (more or less) adventuring in dear old London. The acting of the Idler comediennes, and their Radcliffe colleagues, though marked by the common defeats of amateur theatrics, possessed enough freshness and spontaneity to lift the performances above the average of its kind...
Playwright Alan Alexander Milne's latest work, based on a commendable satirical structure, describes a pair of bright young things who, apparently having nothing better to do, attempt to befriend some dear old things downstairs. In the course of their philanthropy they have the daughter of the family packed off to Canada. She departs brokenhearted. They also arrange an operation for the invalid mother. She dies. The father (venerable 0. P. Heggie), mortally stricken by the heartless kindness of his neighbors, is left to face his future empty-handed and alone...
...only be explained by his book's disarming brilliance and enormous length. The chief gist of the Apes' preoccupations is revealed in the opening scene, where, outside Lady Fredigonde Follett's London mansion, "the policeman could be observed at his usual occupation known as Oh-dear-Mabel!, which consists in a repeated readjustment of the stiff melton trouser-fork, by a simultaneous flexion of both legs.'' What "Oh-dear-Mabel!" is for the policeman, the Artistic Life is for the Apes...