Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kentucky's massive, paunchy Alben Barkley was so outraged at this report (he, too, had been given a friendly Roosevelt back pat) that he called back all advance copies of his address nominating Franklin Roosevelt for Term IV, and threatened not to make the speech at all. Cried "Dear Alben": "I certainly don't know which shell the pea is under...
...foolish, criminally stupid officers hatched a plot to remove me and . . . the staff of the German High Command. The bomb that was placed by Colonel Graf von Stauffenberg exploded two meters [about two yards] away from me on my right side. It wounded very seriously a number of my dear collaborators. One of them has died...
...Dear Editor...
...Clamper. But the troubles of "Dear Charley" were not so much with Author Twain as with Inventor Twain and Businessman Twain-who never had made a nickel except by writing and publishing. From the publishing house Twain was reaping $100,000 a year-and pouring most of it into his inventions. There was Kaolatype (a chalk process for engraving). It had been going nowhere for years. There was the Twain bed clamp, designed to keep babies from getting wound up in the covers. It was Editor Webster, then an infant, who proved it unpractical. Nothing ever came...
...felt to be a celebrity. Reported Aunt Mary: "He said it didn't make him feel any different, and I said, 'Well, don't you feel some above the rest of us now?' Ernest said, 'Why should I? You're all dear...