Word: dears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...price is low, but as she has no need of it, I fear she will find it dear," wrote John C. Calhoun of his mother-in-law's $10,000 purchase of Dumbarton Oaks in 1822. At that time, twenty-one years after the estate had been built, it was called Oakly and was surrounded by thirty acres of graden and woodland. Calhoun, himself, soon found that Oakly was an expensive commodity...
...deluged Henry Ford II with outraged letters. "Your grandfather would spin in his grave," wrote an Albany physician, "if he could see the antics of the people who are spending good American dollars earned in the good American way by your once-fine company." Wrote someone from Los Angeles: "Dear Henry: Drop dead...
...Aged Frenchmen, The Function of the Horse in Anglo-Saxon Courtship Patterns. There is a marvelous visual essay on the ricochet principle in Gallic traffic, and the now-familiar comic scene in which a British mother gives her daughter some moral aspirin on her wedding night: "I know, my dear, it's disgusting. But . . . just close your eyes and think of England...
...savage who can say nothing but "Boola!" In fact, the most interesting thing anybody can find to say is, "Now let me see, is there anything IVe forgotten to do before I turn out the light? H'm. No, I don't think so. Good night, dear...
...preached his first sermon at Warsaw's Church of the Holy Cross, where he had been scheduled to speak just before being taken prisoner. "My dear children of God.'" he began. "I am a little late-only a little more than three years. Forgive me; it is the first time that anything like that has happened...