Word: dears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campaign manager, M. H. Marquardt, was convicted of importing five Chicago women to vote for him at Gary, Ind. polls, and because the added votes did not succeed in renominating him for Commissioner of Lake County, William J. Fulton shot and killed himself last week. His suicide note read: "Dear Mother: I am at the breaking point and whether in defeat or victory I know not. Still I just can't believe myself on this horrible affair...
...Dear Little...
...capitals of the Great Powers, Dutch diplomats school themselves to smile instead of wincing at the question which hostesses all ask sooner or later: "And how is dear little Holland?"* Proud were Dutchmen last week when dear little Holland completed with her own money, her own materials, her own engineers and labor, the largest canal lock in the world, larger than Germany's on the Kiel Canal, larger even than the stupendous U. S. locks on the Panama Canal. Seven million dollars was the cost. The work has taken ten years, forms the last gigantic link in a ship...
...Graaff, onetime Dutch Minister to the U. S., never got over wincing at "dear little." Addressing the International Law Association at Manhattan in 1924 he said with visible emotion: ". . . While I appreciate the sympathy, I take exception to the diminutive, and most strongly object to the 'dear.' At least as far as international law is concerned, I think that my country deserves a better name than 'dear little Holland.' " The area of the Netherlands is 13,208 sq. mi. (about three times the size of Connecticut). Its population: 7,625,938. The Dutch Kingdom...
...Cents a Dance and Funny, Dear, What Love Can Do (Columbia) - Ruth Etting's husky way is particularly suited to the sad story of a dance-hall "hostess...