Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canadian censors don't get this letter, I hope that you will publish it and allow your readers a view of Canadian youth's outlook other than that of the official propaganda. Although we are painted as panting to go overseas and get killed for dear old England, the remarks I have noted among younger Canadians since the announcement that the U. S. was coming here to set up defense bases have been typically: "Well, it won't be long now, before we're all under Uncle Sam-and a good thing...
...north of the Yard are the towering Memorial Hall, dear to the hearts of Harvard men as the place where they register and take examinations, and the New Lecture Hall, which is about twenty years...
...general complaint against the Ministry. "You'd hardly believe the appalling state of this office," said he. "The place is a complete chaos." Somebody asked: "Isn't the Beaver producing the planes?" "Oh, yes," said the complainant, "he's producing them all right. But, my dear fellow, the methods! They're dreadful...
...offered him the comforts of her home, the angel accepted. The arrangement was not altogether happy. "After all," wrote Balzac to his great friend, Madame Hanska, "she is a man and wants to be a man ... I am extremely-male myself. ..." She called tuberculous Chopin: "Mon cher cadavre (My dear corpse)." Comrade Sand's proletarian friends disgusted the pianist. "Chopin was pushed more and more into the role of a delicate, sensitive, and suffering wife, continually brutalized by a busy husband and his circle of coarse friends." One cold autumn morning, sick, coughing, wrapped to the eyes in blankets...
Boston has many restaurants, which fall into two general classes: the lousy and the expensive. Durgin-Park, famous Boston catery where you get a huge meal for very little and where the waitresses call you "dear," is excellent. The Russian Bear, the Lafayette, and Locke-Ober's are all excellent and expensive, as is Dinty Moore's, modernistic steak parlor...