Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That left "Dear Alben" Barkley, the old party wheelhorse, out in front. Said
Last week, the Schunkelwalzer-in English, You Can't Be True, Dear-was the U.S.'s top tune according to Billboard magazine's weekly poll. Last year, a Chicago organist named Ken Griffin had. recorded it, thinking it was an old folk tune. A record distributer looked it up, discovered it was only twelve years old, and held by the U.S. Office of Alien Property. Its big royalties now go to the U.S. Government. That would make little difference to its German composers: Tunesmith Hans Otten was dead; Lyricist Gerhard Ebeler had dropped from sight...
...half-hour program that followed was the first installment in the University of Louisville's twice-weekly "radio-assisted correspondence course" in "Problems of Modern Society." It included a chorus of All Hail to You, Dear U. of L., a talk by Louisville's unshrinking President John W. Taylor, and instructions on how to enroll (to sign up, just tear off and send in a registration blank; for college credit, enclose $30 tuition and you will get study materials, written assignments and, in due course, exams). Negroes, who by state law are forbidden to study in the same...
...Dear Virgin." These were the men of Querétaro, on their annual 163-mile pilgrimage to Mexico's greatest shrine. They were well-dressed businessmen, overalled city workers, shoeshine boys, campesinos, Indians from the high sierra. Behind the man with the eggs, Santiago Sánchez walked with arms outstretched, like Christ's on the cross. Indalecio Gómez Romero carried his shoes in one hand, his hat in the other, that stones might rip his feet and the sun strike his head and his penance be more severe. Onesimo Cadena, from the sierra, walked with...
...Instead of simply festering, as in Brideshead, like an old, old staphylococcus, my dear, in a duodenal ulcer...