Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said he: "In the old days, we used to write songs for singers. The songs were personal, and the public felt that. Now they write songs for publishers. You could write a song about 'My Dear Old Mother' or 'I Love You' in a way that seems like terrible corn today. But today songwriters have become too selfconscious. They are afraid of being hooted out of town for writing that kind of thing. Actually, you know," he added in his scratchy, rapid-fire tenor, "corn of itself is always good...
...dear old Oxford Grill we love so well...
...serving only to keep the Committee itself, which is the real Un-American menace, in the two-inch headlines until it can make itself really dangerous. The victims may then be the colleges or the independent newspapers. Certainly nobody, Democrat or Republican, is safe when Louis B. Mayer, a dear friend a Hearst, has to defend him self against Communist charges...
...interpretation, Dear Judas is provocative enough. It portrays a Judas who loves Jesus but finds Him grown too fond of power. This Judas betrays Jesus-in the belief that He will only be jailed for a day or two-to avert His later being seized as a revolutionist and killed. This new motive in a Biblical character brings no new drama to the story; indeed, the story has almost no drama, new or old. Read as a poem, Dear Judas has some effective if showy verse; recited as a play, it is almost as hard to follow as to enjoy...
Piratical Past. The founders of these families were almost invariably shrewd 19th Century merchants who bought cheap and sold dear: "... a Cabot, a Derby, a Sears, an Endicott, a Peabody, a Crowninshield and many others. All represent First Family names today and yet all were men who, if not actually pirates, were at least vikings in their methods." If some were above the slave trade, "they were not averse to an occasional sally into the opium trade." Merchant T. Jefferson Coolidge confided to his "Day Book" that "money was the only 'real avenue' to social success in Boston...