Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from vulgarizing and holding up to ridicule a name so far held as honorable among us? Can they continue to misrepresent the American ladies whose sons and husbands are proud to prepare to defend them, and who are too busy lending their hands to aid and comfort those same dear men to defend themselves against such embarrassing associations, however falsely assumed...
Recently Fields drew blood. Universal sent him a legal document threatening court action if he didn't mend his studio manners (i.e., references to company executives, language in front of cinemoppets, general demeanor). Back came a reply: "Dear Sir, Mr. Fields and I read your letter and did we laugh." It was signed "Adele" (Fields's Negro housemaid...
...crisis comes in the form of force, we desert reason and strike at froth; we ignore basic ends to oppose immoral means; we forestall any real solution to the end of a bitterly destructive war. I cannot see this policy as the assertion of what we hold most dear: faith in the intelligence of ourselves and our common man to work out a decent destiny through reason. Hence I would favor a negotiated peace in which were came to grips with the fundamental problems that are racking the world, in which we placed our strength behind rationalism rather than moral...
...Sinus," like "vitamins," is the current layman's medical fad, a subject of conversation dear to sufferers, who like to give each other such advice as "Don't let a nose and throat doctor touch your sinuses; if you do, you'll have trouble the rest of your life." Such a remark, heard "almost every day," bothers Nose & Throat Specialist Russell Clark Grove of Manhattan. To prove it false, he published last week a popular handbook on sinus diseases (Sinus; Knopf...
...dear!" said the nurse, "did you know...