Word: dears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...banquet lasted, with intervals of song and story, for hours. At the end of it Consul Speiser made a speech. He wanted to remind his dear friends, his honored guests, of those dear days when Tanga was one of the chief jewels in the Kaiser's crown. He wanted to remind them too that it was from German East Africa that the commerce raider Konigsberg, almost as spectacular as the Emden, started in 1914, and that it was not far from Tanga harbor that she was finally sunk with colors flying...
Herr Naundorff's descendant interested one old lady, a Mme Heitz, so deeply in his case that she advanced him sums aggregating $40,000, always addressed him as "My Liege Lord and Dear White Knight." In return "Louis de Bourbon" issued notes "payable in the near future" when he should have regained his rightful place as France's ruler. Last month Mme Heitz went to a medium who revealed that her King was misappropriating the funds she had lent him. Forthwith she demanded a reckoning...
...Quebec." Since the War, the French-speaking province of Quebec has been Canada's "Solid South," steadily returning all but a handful of its 65 seats in the Liberal column. Reason for Quebec's Liberalism is Wartime conscription. French Canadians have little desire to die for the dear old Empire, have never forgiven the Conservative party for drafting them into the trenches. Through Montreal's La Presse ran scare headlines last fortnight-MENACE DE CONSCRIPTION, LA CRISE FORMIDABLE ... EN EGYPT-As a last minute appeal to Liberal prejudices, Quebec gave 25 of her 65 seats to Conservative...
...naturally enough, is upset by this play, thinks she realizes, too late, her love for Pierre. Old Tony smiles gently. Says he: "Yes, dear, I know, I know. But the play must go on?always the play must...
Theory: The despised "private trader" who bought cheap at the market and sold dear to his proletarian customers would be squeezed out of this detestable "unproductive" occupation, forced to do honest "work" or starve...