Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dickey." Another note was addressed to two boys: "Be good boys. Please your father. O Lord help me." Some had been jotted down at intervals: "I am fine at 5:30-is in bad shape, going on and moaning. Tell- I forgive her. Everyone going." Another read: "My dear wife: Goodbye. Name the baby Joe so you will have a Joe. Love...
...Japanese take the word "dear" literally, even at the start of a letter. Last week General MacArthur took care to begin his letter to Japan's Premier with a curt "Mr. Prime Minister...
First his music was slow and mournful, wailing and growling, on Dear Old Southland and Summertime. Then it was fast and happy, on New Orleans' oldtime South Rampart Street Parade. After that came soft, sentimental ballads, like Love for Sale...
...when it is incredible. Its chief weakness is that things happen only because Novelist Shute makes them happen, not because character and situation make them inevitable. Few readers will find credible the situation in which a neighbor discusses the son of the Negro G.I. by his English wife: "My dear, I must tell you what the Vicar said about him. ... I asked him to come and see the baby here before the christening because I thought he might not like it about the color. . .. And he said, [the baby] was . .. 'about the color of Jesus Christ.' My dear...
...dear boy . . . that's not my fault...