Word: dears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hold out to him the fairest promise. Secure in the affection of family and friends for he had won the respect, admiration and attachment of those who knew him, free from the harsh necessity of toiling for his daily bread, he could pursue the scholarly interests that were dear to him and gratify the refinement of his taste. A lover and seeker of the rarest books, and familiar with them in their minutest details he had gathered together in a brief space of time a collection of choice volumes that has but few equals in the whole world...
...game began. After the kick-off it was nip and tuck for a while, but we soon were under way and carried the ball from our own forty-yard line for a touchdown. After we had scored once, the game was ours despite the cries of "Now for dear old Yale." We scored again in the second half, and the game ended with the ball on Yale's one-yard line...
...missing. "Well, call the police." said she. By morning the police had picked up the first ominous clue, in Springfield. Two boys had registered in a hotel as Dick and Henry Godernick, spent the evening, hurried out at midnight. In their room was found a letter: "Dear Mother: Soon will be home from school. It is all very boring. How is the baroness? Ha." There were also some school notes...
...Ambassador's letter was addressed to "Dear Cabot" and Senator Lodge replied, "Dear Joe. . . . As I said when we talked this over before you sailed, I think this is a good decision. . . . With high regard and warm personal greetings. . . . (signed) Cabot...
...landed on Broadway again. The new wrinkle this time was the kids in pictures who, when they are not acting, go to school on the lot. Headliner among them is an itsy-bitchy angel face (Betty Philson) who starts the ball rolling by having her teacher fired. Thereafter, the dear old Goldwyn-rule days give way to the usual mad, noisy, illiterate, shyster antics of the movie industry. Maddest, noisiest, worst illiterate, biggest shyster is a movie magnate (Robert H. Harris) who looks as sinister as a Kewpie doll, acts as honorably as a double-crossing spy, throws telephones across...