Word: dears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Faculty stories, on the other hand, concern exam content; Gertrude Stein's bluebook is famous. Dear Professor James, it ran, I am sorry but I don't feel a bit like an examination paper in philosophy today...
...next day she received a postcard from William James: Dear Miss Stein--I understand perfectly how you feel. I often feel exactly that way myself...
...Lincoln's Birthday fund-raising ceremonies. Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn polled G.O.P. Senators on how many philippics they could unload at party rallies this year, learned to his mild horror that a bipartisan clerk had mailed one query astray. Bemused recipient of the inadvertent, fire-eating "Dear Frank" appeal: Utah's new Democrat Frank E. Moss...
...true lovers of Jane Austen are those who do not advertise their devotion, but are content to whisper 'Dear Jane' as they pause at the grave in the ancient aisle of Winchester Cathedral." This remark (from the Concise Cambridge History of English Literature) shows precisely the position Jane Austen holds in English literature, for would anyone whisper "Dear Alfred" at Tennyson's grave or "Dear Charles" at Dickens'-still less be urged to do so by an academic history? The fact is that though no two "Janeites" can ever agree on what words...
This vision is clearly shared by British Novelist John (The Widow's Tale, Time for Tea) Coates, who has abandoned his own work to bring to light an old, unfinished manuscript of Dear Jane...