Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scribner Editor Maxwell Perkins once discovered a four-letter word in a Hemingway manuscript, showed it to the late Publisher Charles Scribner. "Remember," he said, "that we're forbidden by contract to change a word [of Hemingway]." "Dear, dear." said Mr. Scribner, "we will have to discuss this fully when I return from lunch." Then he vaguely jotted down the word on a pad headed: "What To Do Today...
...crest of the national wave, Democrats ousted three sitting Republicans, lost at least two present seats to the G.O.P. Result: the party make-up of the new Senate will be virtually the same as the old. And it will be led again by Majority Leader "Dear Alben" Barkley, who won easy re-election in Kentucky...
...Verein Einsamer Kriegerfrauen (League of Lonely War Women) wishes to remind German soldiers that there is still one commodity at home not on the ration list. Circulars disseminated by this forthright organization, picked up by Allied troops in captured German positions, read as follows: "Dear Front Soldier: When will you come back on leave? . . . Back at home we know of your heroic struggle ; however, we do understand that even the bravest get tired and that they need a soft pillow, tenderness and real pleasure...
...Classes meet two or three nights a week, for an hour or more. Each "college" offers whatever courses its faculty can teach. There are no compulsory tests, but the voluntary tests are as stiff as an accredited college's. They are marked with military rigor. Students in dear old "SNAF U" (a name invented by Guantanamo Base's students) either "pass" or "fail...
...Farewell. Soon from the shelter strutted eight spic-&-span staff officers, one a Heidelberg alumnus with dueling scars on his face; 400 German soldiers and 30-odd U.S. captives followed them. Colonel Wilck asked for and received permission to address a Word of farewell to his men. Said he: "Dear German soldiers, I am speaking to you at a painful moment. ... I saw that further fighting was useless. ... At this time I have to remind you that you are still German soldiers. Please behave as such. I also wish you the best of health in your future travels and fast...