Word: dears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...renowned, mellifluous, graceful and witty orator, he disdains speechwriters, has immense personal courage and an effective way with interjectors (Australian for hecklers). Once, after delivering a speech in a 103° fever, he asked the Duke of Gloucester: "Sir, what did I talk about?" His Royal Highness replied: "My dear boy, I don't know, but it was damned good." After Menzies took office in 1939, a brash reporter asked: "I suppose you'll consult the powerful interests who control you before you choose your Cabinet?" Said Menzies: "Naturally. But, young man, please keep my wife...
...Dear TIME-Reader...
...actor of genuine promise, Dean made only three movies (East of Eden Rebel Without a Cause, Giant), and only the first had appeared at his death. Today he ranks No. 1 in Photoplay's actor popularity poll, draws 1,000 fan letters-a week ("Dear Jimmy: I know you are not dead") at Warner's-more than any live actor on the lot. Marveled one Wesf Coast cynic: "This is really something new in Hollywood-boy meets ghoul.'' Hollywood's explanation: Dean not only appeals to a "mother complex" among teen-age girls...
...certainly a big mistake to take a report of a survey conducted by Roman Catholics at its face value, especially when that survey and report is about Roman Catholics, and on a subject dear to their hearts-gaining control of the U.S. The Roman Catholic Church is an international conspiracy of totalitarians, far more dangerous to this country than are the Communists...
...received a commendation from General Eisenhower. His simple patriotism that puts country above home and family is expressed in one of his aphorisms: "Be married and not married to your house," which expresses what 17th century Cavalier Poet Richard Lovelace said more fancifully: "I could not love thee, dear, so much, lov'd I not honor more." Char's diary, which forms the largest part of this volume, tells how the god of sleep was awakened. Before joining the resistance, Char writes of a friend−but also of himself−"he had been a carping, suspicious actor...