Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fanny Cohen, 4O-year-old artist, tearfully commented: "She is such a dear old lady, and becomes dearer every year. How I would like to lunch with her! When I met her I would like her to say, 'Hello, Miss Cohen,' and I would say, 'Hello, Queen.' " Said a Negro waiter from Dutch Guiana: "People come and go, but it will seem strange without Wilhelmina...
England's "Oscars" are chosen by moviegoers (polled by the London Daily Mail) instead of by their fellow workers, as in Hollywood. What is it about "dear Maggie" that makes her "the British shopgirl's dream?" She is no great beauty; her nose is sharp, her lips are thin, a large mole guards her left eye. And she is no great actress; most critics agree that ordinary is the word for Maggie's histrionics. Apparently, that's what makes her popular. Said a British producer: "She is really one of them. They feel that whatever happens...
...Dear "Murderer (Rank; Universal-International) is a man who tries to commit the perfect crime, by murdering his wife's lover. Eric Portman is wearily proficient as the murderer; Greta Gynt is blowsily sexy as the wife. The forces of British law & order are, as usual, so immaculately polite about their business that it might tempt some U.S. observers to mayhem, just for the pleasure of meeting them. Occasionally there is a flicker of ingenuity or fright, but most of this picture is sad, stock-company stuff...
Life in Berlin is almost too dear to be worth living. Two pounds of bread are $15, a pound of coffee $100 (on the black market). How much is the city worth...
...sitting in the fetid courtroom "jabbering Bengali 6 or 7 hours every day with the artful dodgers;" she, reviving her pallid children in the cool hills of Darjeeling and Mussoorie; when the children were taken to school in England both had to be separated from them. "We (excuse me dear)," wrote Henry at last, "are so old that we may not see much of our children or they of us if we wait till our retirement." "Our separations," Annette said bitterly, "are expiations enough for holding [this] country...