Word: dears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dear Time Reader
...When I was a little nipper, my dear old Granny gave me a little box of wooden soldiers on my seventh birthday. Oh dear, you wouldn't imagine how pleased I was with them! I drilled them up and I drilled them down, and then one day I took them to the seashore and lost them. Bless my soul, how I cried! My little handkerchief was soaked. And when I came home to tea that night, blubbering and late, my dear old Granny-God bless 'er, her hair was white as snow and her soul whiter still...
...Dear Time-Reader
...address letters in verse ("Postman, propel thy feet/And take this note to greet / The Mrs. Hutchinson / Who lives in Charlotte Street . . ."). Eliot is a devoted Sherlock Holmes fan, is apt to emerge from his room clad in Holmesian dressing gown and slippers, and address his startled friend: "My dear Hayward, I am put in-mind of the incident in Bosnia, at the time of our struggle with the Professor over the Crown Prince's jewels...
...British and U.S. readers. In rhythms as forthright as the beat of a yeoman's pulse and lines as graceful as the curtsy of a tall East Indiaman in the wallow of a seaway, his verses have sung of the countrysides Britons love, of the sports and sportsmen dear to their hearts and of the gallant voyaging that is the stuff of their history...