Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boss of Saks, and as a genial extravert who likes to air his opinions, Adam is not above telling Sophie how she ought to run her fashion business. Sophie usually ends such discussions: "Now, Adam, dear, we've been all over that before. You know how familiar I am with the subject, so let's not discuss it again...
This is all so very nice, in fact, that Mother is a trifle weak on dramatic interest. Audience tears are jerked-or jerked at, anyhow-on behalf of the dear, dead days of the two-a-day. More tears are tried for when the two little girls, lonely for their touring parents, turn up for Christmas and are entertained by the whole troupe. Some tension develops when the older daughter (Mona Freeman) falls in love with an adolescent socialite and becomes embarrassed about her cheerfully gaudy parents. But Father & Mother are so thoroughly kind and understanding that no harm...
...Before filling it, many things had to be discussed. Mr. Murphy and I were sitting alone one night, going over names, for no one had been decided upon. Mr. Murphy was told that Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Straus had come to see him. When Mrs. Straus, who was a dear old lady, saw Mr. Murphy, she looked up at him in her most appealing manner and said, 'Mr. Murphy, you are going to make my boy the judge of the Court of Appeals, aren't you?' (She referred, of course, to her son-in-law. Irving Lehman...
onstellation, hung on for dear life until
SUPPORT OUR MAYOR KEN.NELLY! cried an eight-column 120-point red banner -line (the kind dear to Hearst's heart...