Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mama always seemed to have something to worry about. "To my sorrow," she wrote from Paris in 1907, "I find . . . that my dear boy's bills are not paid, though two years old. I have today been to the bankers and the bills are paid...
...will say nothing, as it will do no good, only it is a surprise as I am not accustomed to this way of doing business, my dear Franklin...
Shirt-Sleeves Trend. What bothered Sara Roosevelt more was that Franklin seemed to be slipping away from her. She and "dear Franklin" argued over the role he should play in life. In a long, grande dame letter to "Dearest Franklin and Dearest Eleanor" she wrote: "The foolish old saying 'noblesse oblige' is good and 'honneur oblige' possibly expresses it better for most of us. One can be as democratic as one likes, but... we owe a great example." She sorrowed over "the trend to 'shirt sleeves...
...dear God, please bless the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Girard Trust Co., and the Republican Party." Thus, says Author Struthers Burt, the children of Philadelphia's rich once closed their bedtime prayers. Ever since ex-Mayor Benjamin W. Richards helped found the Girard in 1835 (naming it after Philanthropist Stephen Girard), the bank has been one of Philadelphia's strongest pillars of good business and decorum. It was the first trust company in its district to join the Federal Reserve System; it thought it should, "from the standpoint of patriotism." In its vaults lie the securities that make...
Back to Britain, where she has become "a visitor most dear to British hearts," went Eleanor Roosevelt to receive from Oxford an honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law.* Introduced by the Public Orator as "a pillar of world affairs," Mrs. Roosevelt herself made a memorable target for photographers as she walked with Vice Chancellor Dr. John Lowe in the academic procession, properly garbed in the traditional squash hat and flowing academic gown...