Word: dears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picked the elder, Joseph Austen, for the great one. Austen went from Rugby to Trinity College, Cambridge, was staked to further polishing in Paris and Berlin, returned to become his father's secretary, to make a maiden speech in the Commons "dear and refreshing to a father's heart." Bathed by his father's setting sun, he became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1903. For his work as Britain's Foreign Secretary (1924-29) he got the Nobel Peace Prize and the almost unprecedented honor, for a commoner, of being raised at one stroke...
...this is wrapped in much verbosity dear to Teuton hearts. A basic ambiguity has always been that to Germans the very name of Germany is so closely related to that of Austria that the words and ideas are fluid and merge if one "thinks in German." Thus the late great Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss of Austria gave his life in maintaining its "independence" from Germany (TIME, Aug. 6, 1934), and yet he gave Austria a new Constitution with these words: "We Austrians are German and have a German country...
...only for such playful purposes as reducing St. Bernard dogs to the size of Chow pups, has had the effect on humans of reducing their minds commensurately with their bodies, making the resultant peewees almost witless. The scientist eliminates this flaw in his discovery, and Lavond, masquerading as a dear old lady,* makes big ones into little ones in the basement of a Paris doll shop, reduces his principal enemy to a 12-in. apache doll, sends him out to stick a poisoned dagger in another man he dislikes. Sentenced to die, the remaining villain confesses that the charges that...
...Revolution, Peter dear, is when the people go mad," explained Great-aunt Beatrice...
...University song, The Crimson and the Blue, the Landonites studied the merits of I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby but finally passed it up as dangerous, catchy though the air is. Official campaign words for Oh! Susanna, with their phrases about "regimented Bunk" and "the dear old Constitution" (TIME, June 15) were turned out by Win Williams and Romney Gifford of the Landon publicity staff...