Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest collective event of the leave was incurred by the 30 of our boys who partook of matrimony last week and brought back their subsequent weekend entertainment with them. For myself, after four sleepless nights on a furlough ticket, mid bawling offspring, and with special attention to one dear three-year-old, name of Ralphy, who rode backwards in the seat ahead, chin hung over the back, drippin' orange juice, and with the most unexplainable silly grin on his face for a solid 600 miles, I will be content to go on running my chances at the Touraine with...
...Dear Umphrey," the letter ran, "What has been done in the Alamo matter? Will you write me, please. What developments in the other situation? Willkie is going to be the man, in my opinion, and I can promise you good cooperation from that quarter if you think it would be helpful." It was typewritten on White House stationery, dated August 17, 1943, and signed "Harry Hopkins" in ink. Sparks said it meant that Hopkins wanted Willkie to get the Republican Presidential nomination...
...reward was the top job in the Internal Revenue Bureau. There he made more reforms. A significant change: the Bureau's form letters are no longer addressed to "Dear Sir" or "Dear Madam"; they now use taxpayers' full names. Weekends Hannegan has spent traveling to his bureaus, preaching efficiency and courtesy, pepping up employes' morale. "I'm an old team man," he said...
...Imagine, dear reader, the results accruing from such irresponsibility in reporting the weekly happenings, if such unverified rumors as follow below were to be passed on as the gospel truth...
...dear readers, in your spare time, analyze the foregoing items. If you recognize in them a semblance of verity, by all means, examine yourself. My friend, you will have succumbed to the insidious devices of Scuttlebutt Fever! For that's what this is, old man, that's what this...