Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heat was melting the tar on Massachusetts Avenue. Mr. Roosevelt patted his moist forehead, dictated a note to "My dear Bob" telling him he did not much care for the results of the committee's 14 weeks' work. Then he fled from the White House, fled from Washington. A week or ten days on the yacht Potomac, out on salt water, would be fine, and, so far as he could see, it was a good time to take a vacation...
BALD I ACCEPT AND WOULD NOT BOGGLE SERIOUSLY AT BALDISH BUT BALDING CALLS FOR REBUKE. I KNOW THAT TIME IS PROUD-PERHAPS RIGHTLY-OF ITS OWN VOCABULARY BUT MY LATE AND DEAR FRIEND WILLIAM BOLITHO WHOSE MASTERY OF STYLE NOT EVEN TIME CAN QUESTION ALWAYS WARNED ME AGAINST PRESENT PARTICIPLES SAVE WHERE NECESSARY BECAUSE THEY WERE HE SAID EVIDENCE OF LAX OR LAZY PROSE...
Almost equally appalled was the Dean who was dreaming of establishing a new Lourdes. But when one of free-thinking Dr. Tulloch's dying patients bathed in the fraudulent young woman's spring and was cured, Father Chisholm in a quandary prayed: "Dear God, give me humility . . . and give me faith...
Soon Chisholm's superiors decided he would really be better off in China. So they hustled him out to Pai-tan, a remote, upriver mission. Wrote the secretary of the foreign missions society: "Pai-tan is a delightful spot . . . four hundred communicants and over one thousand baptisms. . . . My dear fellow, I rejoice that this prize is to be yours. . . . Get good strong durable soutanes. Short drawers are the best and I advise a body belt...
...Dear Charles...