Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dear Friends...
Last week Congressmen heard that Navy Secretary Forrestal was willing to give in even on this question, dear as it was to Navymen's hearts. Thus encouraged, G.O.P. steersmen were getting ready to put merger up to the 80th Congress: it would provide some of the budget economies they had promised...
When Stalin's closest friend ("Dear Sergei") Kirov was assassinated, Zhdanov got his job as party boss of Leningrad. Because Westernized, fractious Leningrad was the hottest spot, the post implied absolute trust in Zhdanov's loyalty and ability, and was regarded as the party...
...Dear comrade. . . . Because I know nothing of foreign languages I have been unable to give you any help of consequence, an inability which I regret as much as anything in my whole life. But I regard your translation as superior to any before it.-I hope you will continue until you have finished the entire New Testament. Thus you will slake the thirst of all Christians in China . . . and help our Christianity spread ever more widely. Best wishes, Chung-cheng" (Chiang's intimate or "courtesy" signature...
...popular, he set it in a harem. He filled it with "Turkish style" music and costumes which were fashionable in 18th Century Europe, gave the heroine his future wife's name Constanze. After the Vienna premiere in 1782, Emperor Joseph II said: "Too fine for our ears, my dear Mozart-and much too many notes." Despite the imperial reservation, Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Kochel No. 384-) became Mozart's first permanently popular opera...