Word: dears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Clementis identified himself as a spy and traitor, and said that, like Slansky, he had tried to kill Gottwald, his dear friend. He fingered John Foster Dulles of the U.S., Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb, and Ales Bebler of Yugoslavia as "spies." Ludvik Frejka, author of the Czechoslovak two-and five-year plans, took the stand to confess: "I sabotaged in such a way that there is still rationing of electricity and food in Czechoslovakia." The wife of accused former Deputy Foreign Minister Arthur London wrote the court that she at first believed her husband innocent...
Great Expectations. In Caravaggio, Italy, after being robbed of 130,000 lire ($208), Mrs. Giacomina Cerutti received an envelope containing 5,000 lire ($8) and an unsigned note: "Dear Madam, it is I who stole your purse. Be assured you will get your money back . . . Will send you 5,000 lire ($8) monthly...
...photograph, Julia Ward Howe, at the age of 91, is being wheeled to a suffrage drive to recite her Battle Hymn of the Republic. Behind her stands Socialite Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, who once bucked up a despairing suffragette with some super-feminism: "Call on God, my dear, She will help you."* Quicker than the eyes of the women who lived through it, the camera catches the maid, the chaperone and the iceman going, the flapper, the fox trot and the facial cocktail coming...
...Hollywood she seldom strayed more than half a block from her mother's raised eyebrows, and was usually home by 11 o'clock. Hedda Hopper says: "My dear, I didn't see her once all the time she was here!" Columnist Sidney Skolsky reports: "She looked like she was going to take off any moment. You know, walking around in a kind of wonderment." Jerry Epstein, Chaplin's assistant, remembers her as the only actress he ever knew who "could name the character and the play if you read her a quote from Shakespeare...
...disliked: "They treat us like an orphan asylum . . . A man is forbidden as if he were an apple." At the same time she wrote to her mother for a Bible ("You know it by heart, so you don't need it. But I really do need it, Mother dear . . ."), and took part in impromptu student prayer meetings. In her senior year, Edna almost lost the right to sit with her class on commencement day; she had slipped away from college for too many overnight stays. But "the class made such a fuss" that the authorities...