Word: dears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pursuing this lexicography, the booklet reveals that "Dear Robert Louis Stevenson" does not mean Dear Robert Louis Stevenson at all, but is instead "an efficient method of remembering the Quad houses, "which are conveniently named Davison, Raymond, Lathrop, and Strong. "Stacks" are also defined...
...face of such an uprising, Progressivite Montanari hustled abroad, left Party-lining Foreign Minister Gino Giacomini to cope with mutinous parents, including many loyal Communists. Said Giacomini soothingly: "We don't want to persecute anyone, certainly not dear Mother Veronica." At week's end, the closing order remained in effect, but parents were still entrusting their daughters to Mother Veronica's medieval-minded ways. Explained the wife of Communist Party Secretary General Gildo Gasperoni: "Her school is better than the others...
...indiscretion, cracked irreverent jokes. In 1946 a group of leading officials were sitting in Mikoyan's dacha, a crenelated red brick atrocity created by a 19th century czarist sugar baron. Malenkov's wife began grumbling about how poor and scarce Soviet nylons were. Snapped Mikoyan: "Yes, my dear young lady, but we have plenty of portraits of Stalin...
...bottled Crimean wine bearing typewritten notes identifying place of origin, Mikoyan once invited his' crony, the late Secret Police Boss Lavrenty Beria, to try some of his specialties. Beria, sniffing the shish-kebab, saluted him as "Comrade Culinary Master." "Yes, yes," replied Mikoyan, with graveyard humor, "but my dear Lavrenty Pavlovich, in my kitchen you don't find a single damn piece of human meat...
...Dear Sir, your astonishment...