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Word: dears (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beauty: Yes, dear Beast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Return of the Blue Bird | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

...monarch, notes Author Maurois, "owed her five million gold francs" (about three million modern dollars). In her desk, "tied with the thin silk ribbon known as a 'favour,' " Miss Howard cherished the dear evidence-a huge collection of signed receipts, along with impassioned love letters, proposals for "tightening such dear links" (marriage?), promises to "raise her to the position she deserved" (empress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Girl with the Moneybags | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

...heretic, my dear sir," he wrote, "is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about." Or: "Marriage is, perhaps, the only game of chance ever invented at which it is possible for both players to lose." Against religiosity, he thrust: "Too many people presume that they are full of the grace of God when they're only bilious." When readers complained that he was too harsh, he had a ready riposte: "I have not yet mastered the esoteric of choking a bad dog to death with good butter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Iconoclast | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...Land of Letters into the Land of Ham. At one point Author Heinz has his Neanderthal narrator muse: "I can never figure out how the mind works." Somewhere there must be a literary line coach getting the squad together with the injunction: "Please, fellers, just once more, try for dear old Harper's, try figure how that mind works. Hit that mind with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Writer With Boxing Gloves | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

Card Sharp. In San Bernardino, Calif., a card stuck in the windshield of an illegally parked car bore an exchange of messages: "Dear Officer, I ran out of gas and money, too," followed by "Dear Citizen, I'll give you an hour to earn some money and buy some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 13, 1958 | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

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