Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knitting. Mums is just sitting still. Dad is smoking and I am writing to you. Oh, you would laugh if you could see us all sitting by the inside wall, ready to make a dive under the table if things get too hot. If you don't mind, dear, I think I will stop for a bit as-My Lord, they have dropped something not far away, the house shook-my hand is getting tired. I am going to read your letter and see if it will give me a bit of pluck...
...since his arrival in New York as a young man of twenty-three, just two weeks before the 1929 crash, Bok had been making a name for himself as an astronomer. Now he was turning his eyes from the Milky Way to a more visceral problem, one near and dear to him because it concerned the people of his Dutch birthplace, and because his adopted country could act now to help them...
...Selective Service Headquarters: Dear Sir: Your pants are ready. Please call for them at your earliest convenience...
...House he has plugged a theme dear to cattle-State politicians: protect the U. S. livestock industry by keeping out South American meat. His amendment prohibits use of any part of the appropriation for food or clothing produced outside the U. S., thus applies to Australian wool as well as to Argentine beef. Says Congressman Scrugham: "I come from a district dependent almost entirely on beef and wool. I'm sent here to protect the interests of those growers. If I don't, they'll kick my -." To Good Neighborites, purchase of Argentine canned beef...
...accents and angular-Scottish faces that smack of the stories of Sir Walter Scott, set against the background of the lochs and the mountains. Harry Lauder is now a very old man but he can still put across a song and play the comic. The ballads he sings are dear to all the hieland lads and lassies who have come over to this country, and most of Boston's Scotch are down at the theatre tapping their feet and singing with him. All this makes for a very informal evening...