Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since the public seems to think that soldiers are simple asses, drooling slush in the face of machine-gun fire, we offer the following copyrighted 'Dear Mom' letters direct from the front...
...Dear Mom: Well, here we are in Normandy. I saw a cute little piggy-wiggy today, Mom, and gracious was he cute. That's what I'm fighting for, Mom - little piggy-wiggies and little ducky-wuckies and little lambie-wambies and, oh, just oodles of young, free things to brighten a brave new world. Your loving...
...Lamb of God, an ancient symbol dear to most Christians, is an offensive notion to the Japanese. To them the lamb is "a dirty, stupid and cringing animal." The word lamb is "an epithet of contempt and derision . . . perhaps the vilest word in the language." Thus, in Christianity and Crisis last week, wrote George S. Noss, Japan-born son of U.S. missionaries, himself a missionary in rural Japan for eleven years, now a teacher of Japanese at Columbia University. His thesis: the reason Christian missionaries to Japan have converted only one-half of 1% of the population is largely that...
Seven Pincushions and a Milk-Shake. Early Woollcott letters are fraught with characteristic Woollcott appetite and enthusiasm. "My dear Smyser, Your charming letter received. . . . We enjoyed our straw-ride very much. I ate a bag of candy, a bag of peanuts, 2 bars of popcorn, a glass of Huyler's ice-cream soda, a chocolate Milk-Shake. . . . I have played over 300 games of croquet. . . . I have just finished the fourth of seven pincushions I am emboidering (don't consider spelling). . . . It is sweet to be remembered...
Doughty, eloquent, imperially-bearded Sir Thomas Beecham sipped a spot of Scotch in Mexico City last week and glanced around at the state of things. Said he to a reporter: "I am willing to admit that there is an opera house here, my dear fellow, but nobody seems in charge of it." Sir Thomas had stepped ambitiously into the same musical scene which had proved almost too much for Leopold Stokowski last spring (TIME, June 5). But unlike Conductor Stokowski, who tried appeasement, Conductor Beecham proposed to deal with the situation in his own sharp, 18th-Century style...