Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dear James,' it read, 'I know you will understand. I've met the only man in the world and I want you to give me a divorce. You can get one through the Navy. They say it's easier through the Navy. You can have Vicki. I hate to lose her but this thing means more to me than anything else in the world...
When Producer Firth Shephard begged her to take Arsenic on tour to get away from the bombs, she murmured: "Where do you suggest we start, dear - Dover?" When crusty Critic James Agate saluted her with "You are still the second most beautiful woman on the English stage," she purred: "That's quite a compliment, from the second-best critic in England." Once, leafing through an album, she came across a picture, taken ten years before, of a much younger rival actress. She studied it a moment, then sighed: "My, my, hasn't she aged...
When the man in the next row trunks to his wife in the midst of a Durance musical comedy and says, "Don't cry dear; it's all play-acting," there must be something wrong with the picture, of at least with its classification. It's would be a delusion to think that the flagrant examples of bad taste in "Music for Millions" have made it a poor picture; but except for a scattered routes, "Music for Millions" is quite different from its 1944 model, "Two Girls and a Sailor...
Bitterly the press attacked Britain as an enemy of France. It accused the U.S. of helping Italy and Germany more than it helped France. With the exception of the leftist newspapers, the press even turned on General de Gaulle's "dear and powerful Russia...
Hollywood went haywire, spending a known $3,740,000 (as against last season's impressive $2,500,000) on some of the highest-priced merchandise in its history: Life With Father and The Voice of the Turtle fetched $500,000 each, plus extras; Dear Ruth, $450.000; Junior Miss, $400,000. Hollywood was even paying $100,000 and $150,000 for Broadway flops...