Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was Harry Truman's request, the end of Henry Wallace's thirteen stormy years in the Government. Wallace penned a short note. "Dear Harry," he wrote. "As you requested, here is my resignation. I shall continue to fight for peace. I am sure that you approve and will join me in this great endeavor...
...since the Wallis Warfield affair had elite London drawing rooms echoed to such a coo of deliciously subdued conversation. "My dear-not the King of the Greeks!" "And just after he had won the plebiscite!" "How awful for the Foreign Office!" "And for the poor dear Hellenes!" "Hasn't he grown children, or something...
Born in Pembrokeshire, Wales (in 1876), Gwen John preferred Paris. There she divided her life between painting in her monastic quarters and praying in a Roman Catholic chapel around the corner. Poet Rainer Maria Rilke lent her books now & then, and she corresponded with "Dear Master" Neo-Thomist Jacques Maritain, but her only constant company was cats. She was careful to remember the cats in her will...
...Each His Own (published by Paramount Music Corp.) is the first success of Ray Evans and Jay Livingston. In return for Hollywood peanuts ($250 a week), these two 31-year-old composers knock out ballads celebrating titles of non-musical movies (Kitty, Dear Ruth...
Good, Noble, Occasionally Mistaken. Amy Lowell (1874-1925) was the Poetess-Pontifex. She once told Author Greenslet, "Ferris, you are a dear good boy, but you don't know a thing about biography, not a God damned Thing.'" Author Greenslet knows enough, at any rate, to have written a highly readable series of biographical sketches. In tone they are semi-official and rather adoring; apparently Lowells are rarely inspired by anything less than noble impulses and a passion for good works, though now & then they may make "mistakes." But at that, they are an interesting lot. Among them...