Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dear," said the anthropology professors at London University to Eslanda Robeson, leftist wife of Singer Paul Robeson. She had insisted that she possessed inborn understanding of the primitive mind. "You can't possibly know the primitive mind," they said. "You see, you are European." "What d'you mean I'm European?" snapped Eslanda; "I'm Negro . , . I'm African . . . I'm what you call primitive." "You're not primitive, my dear," said the dons, "you're educated and cultured, like us." Indignant, Eslanda decided to visit Africa...
...Miss Josephine Piccolo, a Brooklyn textile inspector, he wrote: "My dear Dago: (If I am mistaken in this please correct me) ... Will you please keep your dirty proboscis out of the other 47 states, especially the dear old State of Mississippi...
...Beaver, marshaling facts & figures in rebuttal, promptly replied in an open letter to "Dear Jack." Beaverbrook's verdict: absurd, my dear fellow...
Soon Barmine received a letter from one of his twin sons in Russia: "Dear Papa, they read to us in school the sentence passed on the Trotskyist spies, Tukhachevsky, Yakir, Kork, Uborevich and Feldman. . . . Wasn't it Feldman who used to live in our apartment house?" It was. And Barmine soon became aware that he must pay the usual price for knowing a liquidated man. Soon his comrades in the legation tried to lure him aboard a Russian ship which had unexpectedly appeared in the Piraeus...