Word: dears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Syndicating an account of her dalliance with Actor John Barrymore, Elaine Barrie gushed: "We idled and idylled away that week of pure companionship in that dear hospital room. . . . Let other lovers praise the rose and the violet. The perfume which penetrates to my heart is that of a hospital corridor, and to the day I die I shall sniffle a bit whenever I sniff iodoform...
...Deal] law." And, listing all the other objections they could think of, together with a counterproposal (put both bank and RFC loans on a six-month-notice basis), Messrs. Reynolds & Whitney wrote Mr. Vanderbilt, who forwarded the letter to Mr. Jones with a covering note. Mr. Vanderbilt began cajolingly: "Dear Jesse...
This sort of letter put no tenderness in Mr. Jones's heart, no amenities on his tongue. Sternly he dictated: "Dear Mr. Vanderbilt...
...Very truly yours. . . ." Despite his sternness, "Dear Jesse" extended for two months $15,600.000 of "Dear Mr. Vanderbilt's" RFC note falling due last week. But he also had an afterthought: "Dear Mr. Vanderbilt...
Holy Cross and Harvard students took little part in the combat--probably their spirit has already been sapped by the insidious radicalism of pre-Oath teaching. Only outsiders, unexposed to cowardly rationalism, were eager to do or die for the dear old College and the dear old Flag. These heroes fought the good fight and went home with spirits uplifted, eyes inflamed, and noses bloody. The Cambridge police eventually intervened, although civilization would have been better served had the carnage continued, with more spirits elevated, more eyes blackened, and more noses smashed...