Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Afraid of the Big Bad G.A.O.?," we have found our usually overflowing letter-box (damn those girls) even more super-saturated as bewildered ex-Seniors turn to the Lucky Bag for succour in hour of DEspair. Bear with us as we quote a few of the missives rec'd:--Dear Carpet (or is it Lucky...
...from a Statler dance, a political rally or a premiere movie, to the Bali dance routine Chief Pearson puts us through on a Monday morning, but we must descend at last. At least that's the theory of our very dear pharmacists' male friend (the eye specialists you know). In his rotund manner, thrusting, the creosote gun down our throat he says "You've danced, now pay the piper" and pulls the trigger...
Henry L. Stimson, whose weekly press conferences are Washington's most austere since Herbert Hoover's, was greeted on his 77th birthday by a chorus of reporters singing a lusty "Happy birthday, dear Henry!" Responded the shy, dignified Secretary of War: "Ladies and gentlemen, I am very grateful. After that, everything seems drab." Asked to guess the date of V-day, he said: "Well, I hope I live long enough to see V-day. Further than that the prophet sayeth...
...Episcopalian clergyman who ran the Home, came to get another $10,000. "The little I have will go to Margaret when I am gone," said Emily, stroking Margaret's hand. But a few days later Emily went to see Roger Sherman's stamp collection. He whispered: "Dear Emily, I think of you as a lily, swaying on its stem. . . . Let me be your knight. . . . We shall seek for ... truth, together." "What if we don't find it?" asked Emily gloomily. But Roger knew she had accepted him. "Shall you tell Margaret?" he asked. "Not yet," said Emily...
...Margaret guessed. Casually she informed Gloria, Wedgewood's bad beauty, that Roger had a nice income and no one to share it with. While Gloria pursued Roger, Margaret took Emily to Maine for a nice holiday. Emily, she insisted, was not well; perhaps her heart was weak. "Our dear old doctor," Margaret told the other vacationers, "suggests adrenalin...