Word: dears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearby would entertain the officers at many a bright party. For the men there would be a carnival at more distant Patchogue, where they could race bicycles, pitch horseshoes, swim, or dance in the street. There would be tennis, golf, swimming, baseball; the Gold Cup race for speedboats, and, dear to the heart of Mr. Britten who was once an able boxer himself, the finals of the scouting force boxing matches. James Joseph Tunney, retired Marine, would referee and give to the heavyweight winner the statue of James J. Corbett which Mr. Britten won as U. S. amateur lightweight champion...
...made is to hand France's savings over to Germany so as to save English and American capital which has been risked in big German industries. Germany has discovered that the best means of pressure is to have large debts. She has found that this procedure makes her dear to those who do not wish to lose their money...
...friends' grammar. Once he remonstrated with George Moore for his use of the phrase "more than you think for." Moore replied: "Shakespeare uses it and my parlormaid uses it, and an idiom which Shakespeare and my parlormaid use is good enough for me. . . . Your own writing, my dear Gosse, would be improved by idiom.'' Says Biographer Charteris: "Gosse . . . was deeply offended, and many explanations were necessary to avert the danger which menaced a friendship of forty years." An admirer of Walt Whitman, Gosse visited the U. S. to lecture, called at Camden, N. J., and spent...
...sound of the first bullets one is overcome with a certain enthusiasm (the first bullets are always welcomed with 'hurrah' by the troops). . . . One thinks for a moment of the dear ones at home as well as about one's old and honorable name, and then one dashes ahead...
...There are still new worlds for Glasgow to conquer," said George V, "There is for example the southern half of the American Continent from which my dear son the Prince of Wales recently returned and which I believe will one day be bound to Britain by close commercial ties...