Word: dears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DEAR AND GLORIOUS PHYSICIAN (572 pp.) - Taylor Caldwell - Doubleday...
...every night and going to the opera in the afternoon and had been otherwise engrossed and it was the period of final examinations and there was an examination in William James' course. She sad down with the examination paper before her and she just could not begin to work. "Dear Professor James,' she wrote at the top of her paper, 'I am sorry but really I don't feel a bit like an examination paper in philosophy today,' and left...
...next day she had a postal card from William James saying, "Dear Miss Stein, I understand perfectly how you feel. I often feel exactly that way myself." And underneath it he gave her the highest mark in his course...
...moral evil because it violates the pattern of God, who wants man to work and be able to find, in the fruits of his labor, for himself and those dear to him, the means of living a human life. In a human economy, in a juster and better organized society, there must no longer be room for unemployment...
Margaret, at 28, has spirit enough to marry Colum even though it means leaving dear old daddy, who has been so dependent on her. At first, Colum is just wonderful to Margaret, but his friends seem a tacky lot. There is Mrs. Belmore, the rich, vulgar American, and beautiful but unladylike Lauriol, who seems to have certain claims on Colum that Margaret does not care to think about. More unsettling is the fact that Colum rapidly proves himself to be an unmitigated liar and a compulsive thief. One of his pranks causes the death of Mrs. Belmore, a nasty brush...