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Word: dears (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summons had been unexpected but imperious: "Dear Vag--There has been an ugly bare spot on my dressing table ever since Scotties went out of fashion. Could use your picture to fill it up until I think of something more original. Please try not to look as glum as usual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/21/1940 | See Source »

...trombonists around that manages to sound anything at all like the famous Jack Teagarden, his solo on "I Surrender Dear" (Columbia) being a good example...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWING | 2/16/1940 | See Source »

...praiseworthy. It would be nice, hinted the conferees, if Hungary and Bulgaria would drop their claims against Rumania, Greece, Yugoslavia until a general peace could be negotiated. But all knew that the Balkans, in order to keep the peace that in this generation they have come to hold so dear, would have to go on performing acrobatic tricks of neutrality. No concrete results were expected, none resulted. But it was all very cordial and pleasant, it left everybody feeling good, and at the end it was decided to renew the Balkan Pact for another seven years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BALKANS: Peace-Lovers' Powwow | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

...seat to get into the venerable Belasco Theatre. They went to sit through something Chicago had been howling over for 33 weeks: John Barrymore, the Waning Profile, making a travesty of a play that travestied his own career. In a sense they were disappointed. My Dear Children was definitely not up to the low standard it attained in Chicago (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Exploits of Elaine | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

...Meanwhile a determined young woman hustled out of her third-row seat and trailing her foxy furs, headed backstage. She was, as most of the audience knowingly noted, darkling Elaine Barrie, the lipsticky, 25-year-old tyro-wife whom 57-year-old John had spanked out of My Dear Children's ingénue lead and into the divorce courts last April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Exploits of Elaine | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

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