Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...name of the Polish female youth I take this oath, oh God! . . . We shall move the world, the hearts of nations, of politicians and statesmen even. For this aim we shall offer what we hold dear: womanish traits of goodness and mildness. We shall become soldiers who fight, who pour blood, who kill. God . . . look into our hearts and Thou willst find love, enthusiasm, readiness for sacrifice. . . . Poland, freed from the swastika, has been captured by the hammer and sickle. Dachau and Buchenwald have been replaced by Siberian ice. . . . Poland will rise from the dead, so help us God! Amen...
...from Detroit whose business career started inauspiciously when he was arrested for painting rows of red footsteps on the sidewalk leading to his first shop, he went on from there to help create the great American corner drugstore. His letters to the trade were famed among druggists. Sample: "Dear Pardner: . . . our Diarrhoea Cure is a great thing. Try it yourself. I have...
...Dear Time-Reader
Good morning, dear children...
...mission, he realizes that he has had an education in statecraft and princely behavior, also in the behavior of women. He drafts a saucy play about a woman like Aurelia, hints that he may some day write a book about a man like Borgia. "My dear Niccoló," says a friend, "you're so impractical. Who d'you think would read it? You're not going to achieve immortality by writing a book like that." The play, Mandragola, was finished about 1514. The Prince came out some nine years later...