Word: dears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...article, "The Case Against Ike": Thank you for keeping us informed on the Republican Party's own worst enemy, namely, dear old Bertie McCormick. To many who live in and around Chicago, the Tribune is bought and read strictly for the comic strips. The rest of the paper, in particular the editorials, would be funny if the whole thing wasn't so sad, unfortunately so because there are undoubtedly many people who read the colonel's hogwash and believe...
When Martin resists her idea of moving to the mainland, Vera takes to relentless nagging. She insults his friends, drives the hired boy off the island, even neglects and abuses her own daughter, the one thing truly dear to her. In the end, the daughter dies, partly because of her mother's carelessness in a crisis. Shock and a miscarriage kill Vera too-but not before her bubble has burst, and she sees herself as she is and life as it must be lived...
...long climb Dizzy married a society widow for her money. "An excellent creature," he said of her, "but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans." He came to love her so devotedly that he once paid her a supreme compliment: "Why, my dear, you are more like a mistress than a wife." She said of him: "Dizzy has the most wonderful moral courage, but no physical courage. When he has his shower bath, I always have to pull the string...
Said Gino Giacomini, the republic's Foreign Secretary (and a Socialist): "They offend the dignity and the autonomy of our republic. Dear friend, it is a very bitter pill." The republic had to swallow it. At week's end, San Marino restored its law against gambling, shut up its casino. Demo-Christian Leader Teodoro Lonfernini found a little to cheer him: "We may not have much money, but at least we have had a good housecleaning...
...King's Works of Art (1936-43) and a man who likes to keep the records straight about his most famous ancestor. As a close student of his tough, gunpowdery great-grandfather, he came to doubt that the first Duke ever uttered the sonorous bit of snobbery so dear to generations of British orators: "The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton." So last month he did what any Englishman would do under the circumstances: he wrote a letter to the editor of the Times. In it, he offered to pay ?50 to the National...