Word: dears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Friday night meeting of hard-shell Baptists-to which, in their own words, "Jews, Catholics and modernist Protestants" [and, of course, Negroes] had not been invited-drew perhaps 600 restless souls to hear North Little Rock's Rev. E. T. Burgess intone, as a final prayer: "Especially, dear Father, we pray for the man who sent troops to Arkansas and then went back to the golf course as if nothing had happened...
...Rome, thrice-married Cinemactress Ava Gardner said four times was out, described her near, dear companion, Italian Comic Walter Chiari; as just an "attentive, affectionate, charming friend." Mourned Chiari: "I could be ready for the ceremony in ten minutes...
...original composition by George Bruns, the man who wrote Davy Crockett. When Perri sleeps, she dreams in a combination of live and animated effects, just like other movie stars, and the dream figures engage in the usual elaborate ballet-though of course they are not people, but dear little bunnies. Producer Disney has even provided Perri with a love interest: a bushy-tailed charmer named Porro. As Porro chatters away at Perri in squirrel language, Narrator Winston Hibler translates the scene in a voice so warm and soft that children in the audience may almost mistake it for Perri...
...schoolyard, but Benjy has his reward when his Good Fairy shows up. An offbeat sort decked in a baseball uniform and chomping an outsize cigar, this Good Fairy grants Benjy's only wish that "whatever big and marvelous things happen to little Benjy . . . will happen to his dear Mummy, too!" Months pass, and nothing happens until one day Mummy and Benjy drag sulky old Daddy out on a picnic. Benjy spots a giant black egg. and Daddy tells him not to fool around with it, but Mummy mutters in her through-closed-teeth voice...
...Freemasons, including Bacon, sent a book to Doubleday, Doran purporting to prove that the plays contained hidden stories (e.g., "The Asse Will Shakespeare . . . beares sland'rous tales to Hatton"). Doubleday sent the book to Cryptologist Friedman, who used Cunningham's own "Masonic Code" to get the message: "Dear Reader, Theodore Roosevelt is the true author of this play, but I, Bacon, stole it from...