Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dear Mr. Collins...
...Dear Lord of Courage and Fortitude, if I must have Rheumatism, so help me by Thy divine grace to bear it in such a manner that I do not make every person in the house feel the pain. Give me the grace to refuse to describe over and over again the misery and pangs that belong to me alone. Strengthen in me the desire to get well, that I may not even be tempted to live in the pity and sympathy that is expected to be extended to an invalid. May I remember continually that pains in nerves are multiplied...
...Crimson Network had been making an all out effort for the past week to obtain Hildegarde, who is at present singing at the Copley Plaza. Hildegarde, known as "the dear that made Milwaukee famous," is as much known for her looks as for her vocal attainments and members of the Crimson Network are afraid that listeners will make the best part of the show...
...Cambridge Summer Theatre has apparently at last given vent to a long-suppressed ambition, and is now presenting a show in which the actors have a gay time for themselves, without paying too much attention to anyone else. "Ten Nights in a Barroom" has Mary Barthelmess droning "Father, Dear Father, Come Home With Me Now"; it has Robert Perry hopping around like an 1890 model of Danny Kaye; and it has a weird conglomeration of characters and specialty acts. These vary widely in appeal, but they have one thing in common: everybody behind the footlights has a whale...
...they normally do and, in many cases, what they are supplying is lower-grade scrap. For example, the railroads (usually good for 4,250,000 tons of scrap a year) are finding it next to impossible to get new equipment, so they are hanging on to old equipment for dear life instead of junking it for scrap. Even the steel mills themselves are getting less "home scrap" (usually 50% of the total) because so many ingots are being shipped abroad instead of being chewed up into shapes at the mill...