Word: dears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neither NRA, AAA, devaluation of dollar nor Government spending are so dear to Franklin Roosevelt's heart as the Public Utility Act. To him distrust of holding companies is on a par with love of trees. Not an official word did he utter when he heard the news from Baltimore, but in the first week of the critical 52 he saw that an unpleasant choice would soon be forced upon him: to suppress his personal feelings for the Public Utility Act while legal taunts and political insults are heaped upon it, or to carry the fight against holding companies...
Given an untimely death in 1860 by the dear faculty, very elaborate ceremonies accompanied the burial. But the game went on; the students went to Boston or nearby places to play it for a year...
...Dodo, being the sober creature that he was and not caring much for turkey anyway, was less interested in the news: "Dear girl, if the Department of Agriculture at Washington wants to experiment with turkeys to get a smaller species -- and even if it will look like a duck, that should not disturb us too much. It will still be turkey...
...dear Alice, take the case of the extinct elephant they found in Connecticut last week. They say that species didn't survive because it didn't fit in with its environmental conditions. As the Republican party would say, 'there was a depression of the habitat.' Now the Democratic party figure there's a lesson to be learned from the elephant which they can apply to their donkey; only they choose to experiment with turkeys first. The Democrats feel that if their experiment is successful and they can fit a turkey to the average family's oven what's to stop...
...Note--Dear Mr. Kahn...