Word: dears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreign-sounding tongue. The game had everything a fledgling actress could want. There was a captive audience of nice, admiring old ladies ("What an enchanting child!"). There was a touch of mystery ("What language is she speaking?"), a touch of pathos ("Look how sweet she is to her poor, dear mother") and-Shirley fervently hoped-a big helping of romance ("Maybe she's a princess in exile...
Charles Thollet, a hardware dealer of Port-Lyautey, French Morocco, knows only a little English, but that did not bother him when he planned a trip through the U.S. He only looked up some addresses, and sent off a few letters beginning "Estimata Sinjoro." Last week the "Dear Sirs" of the U.S. were entertaining him and his wife royally. The language they used: Esperanto...
...dowdy Penelope into a beauty parlor. When the poor girl saw what a ravishing creature she really was, she popped an ad in The Matrimonial News: "Young woman of great beauty and impeccable virtue . . . wishes to meet young man . . . No clergy need apply." Like an arrow came the answer: "Dear Miss P . . . Few women would have the nerve to claim great beauty, and only a small proportion of these would at the same time claim impeccable virtue ... I am consumed with curiosity...
...Dear Mr. O'Hara...
...mostly Brubaker was resentful. Why pick on him? He had come back from flying in World War II and married the girl he loved. He was the father of two small daughters who were very dear to him, and he had just got started as a lawyer in his home town. Now here he was in Korea, fighting a war he hardly understood, convinced that the vast majority of his fellow citizens didn't give a hoot...