Word: dears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announced his intentions of capturing Alsace-Lorraine, Belgium, Holland, etc. So long as hostilities are to take place in the East, Britain is concerned only indirectly, and can hardly be expected to enter into alliances with France and Italy which commit her beyond all recall. To use a phrase dear to Grey, "British public opinion would never sanction" such a commitment. Britain is unlikely to do more than express her strong disapproval of recent events in Germany. She will doubtless indulge herself, through the mouths of Sir John Simon and Ramsay MacDonald, in many pious wishes, none of which, because...
...make a man swear allegiance to a flag, whether or no it be that of his birth, is tantamount in folly to betting on Oxford in the Oxford-Cambridge crew race. University and school teachers, whenever they gather in secret, must drink toasts to Der Tag that is dear to their hearts--when the American Legion will have been deafened by the noise of its bands and shouting, and the Daughters of the American Revolution burned by the fire of their own patriotism...
...that as it may, I am certain that the dear old man did not slip off "into the Founder's outstretched arms." No, no, a thousand times no! This piece of misplaced sculptural enthusiasm has one arm somewhat "outstretched," the other hangs at its side with a clenched hand holding a scroll. . . . Should a man by chance hit upon the one available arm its angle would chute him off into space. . . . TIME may be puissant but can it make a bronze statue move its arms to save a veteran...
...Dear Crawford...
Answering "Dear Clay's" letter of resignation, President Roosevelt accepted the withdrawal with "sincere regret," but, with an eye toward his own public record, was at pains to point...