Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dear Ruth . . ." he said. The Red Cross girl, Virginia Pfeiffer, wrote it down. She did not hesitate when he came to the part about breaking his engagement to Ruth "because I don't want to be a drag on anybody." She signed his name, "Al." The Jap bullet that blinded Al Schmid after his machine gun killed 200 Japs had struck far from Guadalcanal...
...stretched his arm out, palm downward, in salute. Suddenly he heard a panting behind him. Relax, Ted, he thought, you don't have to fill it all yourself. But Vag had been fooled by the dark. It was only when the furry frightened creature crept closer whimpering "Oh dear, oh dear, I'll be late. What will the Duchess say?" that he realized. One of Mike's cuddly rabbits; Disney will never live it down. Vag jumped as the match burned...
...have packed up and left us early, Inchball, taking everything, though you will go on with nothing. We can not decry your departing this time, dear Inch; we only put on the yew and weep. Yes, you have left us too soon, for the scarred lawns are still bleached. Patterns or drab and blue, grimy white and withered ivy, golden steeple against the sky now mark your going, but green and skirted yard will welcome you when you return to our sanctum, Inchball...
Fishkill Farms, the Hudson Valley home dear to the heart of Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr., lay frozen and snow-specked under grey mists this week. The Mclntosh apple trees, which Henry Morgenthau loves to see at blossom time, stuck bare, stubby branches into a winter wind. The rose bushes which he likes best of all (his favorite is called Better Times) stood like dry sticks in little mounds of protecting earth. Not until April would Fishkill Farms come to life again...