Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bearded Allan D. Dowling, 43, who makes his money in real estate and spends some of it publishing his own avant-garde poems, had sent the Review a mash note. He thought it was the finest thing since the dear dead Dial, he said, and he offered to stake it to enough cash to make the Review in fact what John Dos Passos had called it: "The best literary magazine in America." Longtime Co-Editors William Phillips and Philip Rahv told Angel Dowling that they thought the job would take at least $50,000 a year...
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...might very well be one of the better imports seen around the Exeter Theater, and it is just possible that the American public will take this rare nectar willingly. Rex Harrison could easily be addressing the producer of the picture when he tells Gene Tierney through his beaver, "My dear, I like you. You have spunk...
...Dear Young Friend." Read spent 4½ bloody, boring years in the infantry, rising to a captain's rank. He and his friends returned to civil life with high hopes-only to find that "we left the war as we entered it: dazed, indifferent, incapable of any creative action. We had acquired only one new quality: exhaustion...
...dear young friend," wrote Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (who advised all would-be authors to take a steady job and to write in their leisure hours), "suppose yourself established in any honorable occupation. From the manufactory or counting-house . . . you return at evening . . . with the very countenances of your wife and children brightened. . . . Then . . . you retire into your study [where] your writing-desk with its blank paper and . . . other implements will appear as a chain of flowers." So Author Read obediently took a job in the Treasury-and quickly discovered that "dear Coleridge" had been talking through his hat. Nonetheless...