Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Probably some kind of compulsory savings-possibly the bill introduced by Senator Prentiss M. Brown of Michigan to pay overtime wages (and salaries above a certain figure) in war bonds. (Senator Brown's plan is dear to the heart of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt.) The President was confident that Congress would give him the kind of controls he wants. One reason for his confidence was a Gallup poll last week which showed that 66% of the people polled approve an over-all ceiling on wages and prices (including farm prices...
...moved to tears: "The world will long remember the epic struggle the Filipinos and Americans put up. . . . But what sustained them through all these months of incessant battle was a force more than physical. It was the thought of their native land and all it holds that is most dear to them...
...Dear Cadet Tyler...
...hammiest scenes and lines have been left intact, and are played straight. The barkeeper and the gambler leer, sneer, entrap their victims. Joe the drunkard wrestles in agony with the demon rum; his little daughter quavers Father, Dear Father, Come Home With Me Now, and later dies; Joe remorsefully swears off liquor with the old gag, "I'll never drop another drink-I mean drink another drop." The gambler stabs the squire's son, and the barkeeper's son slugs his old man to death with a gin bottle...
These sharp etchings of Kings & Desperate Men are set off by broader and blander portrayals of the aristocrats; country gentlemen; the Universities; Bath ("Farewell, dear Bath," said a lady of fashion, "nowhere so much scandal, no where so little sin!"); of the male tops (macaronies) whose days were spent perfuming and prinking and whose powdered pompadours were sometimes almost as tall as their wearers; and of the poor, who sought escape from their horrible condition in gin-drinking-"at once the most pathetic and the most tragic of proletarian revolutions-an overthrow of order by the worst means, and toward...