Word: dears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dear Time-Reader
...away," continued Lem, bowing his head in an automatic reflex of respect. "Maybe she had one of our high-class caskets, maybe she had the middle or low class. Whatever she had, when tragedy strikes your family again . . . you're going to want the same job as your dear grandmother got. But it can't be done . . . You'll have to have the wood; won't be any more steel. Sure, we can fix up the inside a little extra-more plush and all-but folks like the outside to have class, and class costs, these...
...made his first speech at lunch, a few hours after his arrival. "Dear brothers and sisters in Christ," he began in his brisk, high voice. "I am going around the U.S. to say thank you, thank you, thank you. But I wish you would dare to send more missionaries to Japan-even lay leaders. I divide my country's 46 provinces into four classes: class A, where we could get 500 converts in a day; class B, where we could get 300 a day; class C, where we could get 200; class D, 100 or less. Only three...
...handsome cathedral, McKenney drops into a palsy-walsy reverie: "Poor old Robert. I have always wondered why they called him Curthose. Maybe his stockings kept slipping down, the way mine did in the sixth grade?" When dealing, with the world of here & now, Author McKenney drops into a dear-diary style more suggestive of Anita Loos's Lorelei Lee than of an ex-staff writer of the New Masses. "In fact, I think leaving debris around even in a place totally remote, is antisocial and swinish; people who throw sardine cans into babbling brooks . . . probably ought to be shot...
...hard-working civil servant in the Post Office. When he had written enough for one book, he simply wrapped up the loose ends as best he could, reached for another sheet of paper and began the next. But in Orley Farm, the plot of which was so dear to his heart, he seems for once to have figured out the whole long run in advance...