Word: dears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will be 34. "I have gotten old, haven't I?" she asks her brother. "Look at the wrinkles in my face. Now all that's left is to wait till the children grow up, get older and older, and then die. Like Mamma, poor dear...
...copies of the first folio edition of Shakespeare's plays; the original articles placed before King John at Runnymede in 1215; the menu for the coronation banquet of Henry IV (1399); the manuscript of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, inscribed as "a Christmas gift to a dear child in memory of a summer day." There is also a fine collection of early Bibles, including the 4th century Codex Sinaiticus, for which the museum paid Soviet Russia ?100,000 (then about...
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...Grandma, what frantic eyes you have," said Red Riding Hood. "The better to dig you with, my dear." said the wolf. "And Grandma," said Red. "what a long nose you have." "Yeah." said the wolf, "it's a gasser." "And Grandma," said Red, "your ears are the most, to say the least." "How you do come on." said the wolf. "I know my ears aren't the greatest, but what're ya gonna do? Let's just say somebody goofed...
...Rats & Dear Old Ladies. Many of the students felt that big-city Protestant churches were overdue for a change of attitude. "Fear of new groups seems to be the handicap to church expansion in some cases," said Paul Mehl, 25, of Union Theological Seminary. "Workingmen don't flock to support a church abounding with prejudices, traditions, and dear old ladies who call it 'their' church...