Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through the fifth grade and I think that is sufficient." When she soberly recorded this in the Spokesman-Review, Lewis (Yale A.B. '07, Litt.D. '36) stomped into the paper's city room to raise the roof. The girl reporter fled in tears as Lewis blatted: "My dear young child . . . you should have known . . . My God . . . I've been called nine kinds of s. o. b., but I've never been called an illiterate. . . ." An older newswoman promptly gave the Nobel Prize winner a proper scolding: "You scared that poor girl spitless...
...have a public. Quote: "Dear Sarge, I've been following your stuff regularly. You're getting better with every column. Your spelling's improving...
...plants. Reassuringly-and for the umpteenth time-he insisted that "Government should get out of active industry as soon as it can." Reassuringly, he said he thought a good deal of Government equipment could go to build up the economies of foreign nations. Then he enunciated a principle dear to the heart of the average Congressman: that "to avoid monopolies and too much concentration, local people should have the first call on such plants...
...Dear Sumner" letter was published. The text of Welles's resignation was not released, a possible indication that it was too hot to handle. There was no hint of a new post for Welles. There was only Presidential politeness, and a regret that "the state of Mrs. Welles's health" made the resignation advisable. This refrigerated treatment, to the man who invented the Good Neighbor policy, by the man who adopted it, was unprecedented -and mysterious...
...Myth of the Puritan, dear to millions of U.S. hearts, is the belief that the Puritans were, and remain, responsible for U.S. bigotry in all its more characteristic forms. The facts, says Historian Myers, prove otherwise. In all the American colonies the general spirit was that prevalent in England. That spirit was one of rampant persecution. Quakers were hanged in Massachusetts, but they were persecuted in Virginia as well. Not only in Massachusetts but in Maryland, long famed for its religious tolerance, the penalty for inveterate blasphemy was death; and blasphemy was any doubt that the Bible was the Word...