Word: dears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your voice and skuddled home again, full tilt, and, oh, how I was laughing! . . ." In 1905, when Miss Terry acted in Shaw's Captain Brassbound's Conversion, she wrote: "You have become a habit with me, sir, and each morning before breakfast I take you, like a dear pill." The New York Times editorialized: ". . . A baking company in Philadelphia makes its pies square. . . . There will still be old fashioned pie-eaters to object that the new model gives a much greater proportion of crust to filling (see Euclid on area of circles). . . ." To this Earnest Elmo Calkins, famed...
...that all is shipshape, Marshal Pilsudski will smoke his pipe contentedly in his dear old War Office (he always remains War Minister), will leave the prime ministry to swashbuckling Colonel Walery Slawek who prepared to take up his chores last week. Under the fantastic Pilsudski administration, oddly enough, Poland prospers steadily. Example: Gydnia, up to a few years ago a tiny fishing village, is now the first 100% Polish "Gateway to the Sea," teems with imposing dockyards, has just been connected with the centres of Polish industry by a new railway...
...gifts, discovered they needed agricultural implements more. While the rest of the party went farther up the river, Mrs. Dickey, who accompanies her husband, stayed on shore with the Guaharibos. The tribe has an unusually high infant mortality rate. Mrs. Dickey said the women wailed all night for their dear children, while the men slept. She liked the Guaharibos men, described them as sensitive, friendly. Said she: "I never saw finer instincts in any white men than in those savages...
...Smokers' Protective League of America, 76, through whose efforts smoking was prohibited in New York subways in 1909, adopted Mrs. A. Audrey Ulric Fiedler, 46, wife of a Newark, N. J. realtor. Henceforth she will call herself Audrey Pease Fiedler. Explained President Pease: "Last May the dear lady was virtually near death. She had been in the care of doctors and was being drugged to death. I was brought in and she was instantly healed. I discovered that what she missed was the spiritual side of life...
Then, with a decidedly horror-stricken parlor remark, "Audacious" utters a "Do you know, my dear?" to the effect that Harvard men actually go to their nine o'clocks in full dress after returning from affairs lasting until dawn in the mauve ballrooms of Greater Boston. Tickled with this scandal, the dilettante society reporter proceeds to explain that the list is graded socially and not athletically. To quote: "If a man goes to Harvard and makes a varsity team, he usually makes the good clubs and therefore 'rates' at Harvard. But many who 'rate' at Harvard do not 'rate' socially...