Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy technician) and one of his fancy uniforms, a fawn-colored, brass-buttoned affair, stripped of medals and cut down to fit his slenderized body. The uniform was obviously good for his morale. He wore it proudly, shunning the civvies G.I.s had presented to him with the note: "Dear Hermann, if you lose, please return the suit...
Last week Harvard got a letter from one of its better-heeled alumni, Morgan board chairman Thomas W. Lament, '92. "Dear Mr. Conant," it read, "I have this day delivered to your treasurer securities with a marketable value of $1,500,000 ... to enable Harvard to build the undergraduate library that you tell me [it] needs. My own gratitude to Harvard is unbounded, and the sense of exhilaration and stimulus that the college gave my undergraduate years is as vivid today as it was a half-century...
...Kiss for Grandma. The current volumes are the most important and inclusive work ever published on Thackeray,'and a first-rate editing job. Three-fifths of the letters have never before been published. They range from Thackeray, aged 6 ("My dear Mama I hope you are quite well: I have given my dear Grandmama a kiss"), to Novelist Thackeray, 40, famed and love-sick ("My dearest Mammy ... the griefs of my elderly heart can't be talked about. . . . What can any body do for me?"). Editor Ray has also included enlightening extracts from Thackeray's private diaries...
Said his wife: "You must take one of my fur coats, dear. It is winter now in Sweden...
...treacherously violated the Non-Aggression Pact she had concluded in 1939 with the U.S.S.R. . . . Naturally, our peace-loving country, not wishing to take the initiative of breaking the pact, could not resort to perfidy"). The last speech proclaims victory ("From now on over Europe will fly the banner dear...