Word: dears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rites, simple but majestic, were performed by George V's lifelong friend the Archbishop of Canterbury and highest Anglican prelates in St. George's Chapel, Windsor. Fittingly, since England was burying her "Sailor King," his son Edward VIII wore the uniform George V held so much more dear than the ermine, the purple and the cloth of gold: the blue of Admiral in the Royal Navy...
...cold and we were far from any station, it did seem. Whereupon we did seek information at the nearest house: Wherein, after much knocking and waiting, a nice old lady in pink night gown did come and ask us "Dear Ones" into the parlor: "Abner will be right down". "Abner", coat over night shirt, did come almost immediately. I did feel most funny when he did ask me for my "license". He, I found, being hard of hearing, I did have an exceedingly difficult time explaining it was not marriage we did want but the nearest gas station. Whereupon...
...Dear Jeff." From Boston youngish T. (for Thomas) Jefferson Coolidge went to Washington to become Undersecretary of the Treasury in March 1934, to lend the New Deal his technical knowledge of finance on the long road of borrowing that lay ahead. A descendant of Thomas Jefferson but only the remotest kin, if any, to Calvin Coolidge, "Jeff" Coolidge, despite his staid New England background, qualified for service in the New Deal by his independence in politics, by his vote for Roosevelt in 1932. In the Treasury his job was figuring out the terms on which new loans should be floated...
...absurdity is obvious enough to make a few blind followers of dear Dr. T. see the impossibility of his idle dream...
Under the new plan in the Graduate School, Dear Chase, explained, there were awarded one fellowship of $1,000, four of $900, two of $880, four of $800, and eight of $750, whereas in the previous year the maximum award to a resident student...