Word: dears
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Victorian aunts had their own cure for the neurotic. "Fiddlesticks," they would cry, tapping a silver-headed cane firmly on the ground. "Just pull yourself together, dear, and you'll be all right." This outlook, combined with some Nietzschean notions about will power, is the essence of the psychological method practiced by Chicago's Dr. Abraham Low. Vienna-born Dr. Low, 63, who is associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Illinois, heads a growing movement (2,000 members) called Recovery, Inc., and dedicated to a kind of correspondence-school psychotherapy...
...Paris in 1940, Correspondent Reynolds handed a French government official a cable, which said: "Dear Uncle Franklin: I am having difficulty getting accredited to the French army. Time is important. Would you phone or cable Premier Reynaud and ask him to hurry things up. It was grand of you to phone me last night. Please give my love to Aunt Eleanor. Quent." As Reynolds had hoped, the French official promptly accredited him. But to Reynolds' embarrassment the official also volunteered to dispatch the cable to President Roosevelt, whom Reynolds had never even met. Explained Reynolds in a Manhattan court...
...Gastonia, N.C., the county draft board received a letter: "Dear Sir: I am suffering from romantic fever and my wife is pregnant. . . Please excuse me from the draft...
...Dear Time -Reader...
Over the week-end, the University secured an outside room for Bender. Closeted there, the Dean of Admissions began dictating letters. "Dear Sir: The Committee on Admissions has decided to accept your son, but has grave doubts . . ." Or: "After reviewing your son's secondary school record, we feel that we cannot accept . . ." Or: "Our conference with you last week was most satisfactory . . . Please find enclosed your certificate of admission...