Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christmas holiday at most of the local girls' schools is a bit prolonged, if we may be so bold as to comment, "Geezie" (as our dear roomie puts it), they have to be in by 12 when they're here, now they leave for a month--what are we going to do for--dates...
...Chers camarades ... reveillez, reveillez, reveillez-"Dear comrades . . . awake, awake, awake...
Although few knew it, Judge Landis had his own peculiar sense of humor. One favorite story: he and his wife, Winifred, were getting out of a cab to attend the Chicago opera; observing how slippery the sidewalk was, the Judge called to his wife, "Be careful, dear, or you'll break your goddam neck." But stubbornness was his best-known quality, and it never served him-or baseball-better than it did two years ago. When the service draft hit major-league rosters and some club owners wondered about giving up baseball for the duration, the Judge doggedly insisted...
...lack of evidence. In jail, 59-year-old, bon vivant Guitry held a daily salon, accepted flowers, pillows, black-market chocolate, U.S. cigarets from admirers. Upon his release, he entered a clinic to calm his nerves, rebuild his appetite. Said a sour acquaintance: "There's nothing wrong with dear Sacha that flattery won't cure...
Signed Lady Gibb last week: "Oh dear, what have I done now? ... I didn't expect my letter to be turned into a newspaper controversy. I wrote as a good Quaker. It won't do any good-all this hate. The ordinary people of Germany are having their punishment now. Their homes are blasted and ruined, their families are broken. I would not kill Hitler ... I should like to see him paint houses again and wallpaper a few homes...