Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...name he himself prefers-according to Nehru-rather than the addition of Mahatma. The suffix ji conveys an idea of simple respect in Hindustani and does not mean, as some might think, "dear little Gandhi...
...Dear Subscriber
...Dear Dickie. Last year, for reasons never publicly told, Churchill abruptly relieved Sir Roger Keyes and installed Lord Louis Mountbatten in Combined Operations. Perhaps age was the sufficient reason: Lord Louis, at 41, was 28 years the younger. Sulfurous Sir Roger fumed that War Office bureaucrats had stymied him, implied that they wanted to get their clutches on the independent Commandos...
...cheer for the dying Kelly. Down with her went two of Lord Louis' prized possessions: a silver cigaret lighter from his cousin, the Duke of Windsor, and a photograph of the reigning King and Queen. Both the lighter and the picture were inscribed: "To Dear Dickie With Love...
...Barrymore made his only return to the stage, in an embarrassing burlesque of his own life, My Dear Children. After My Dear Children, Barrymore went on the air, majestically insulting himself on the Rudy Vallee hour. Shattered in health, he often could not go on, lived in & out of hospitals. Fortnight ago he turned up, staggering with pain, for a rehearsal, finally said: "I guess this is one time I miss...