Word: dears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dear TIME-Reader...
Seymour E. Harris '20, professor of Economics, yesterday admonished the Republican administration for its criticism of the Federal Reserve's "dear money" policy...
...Dear TIME-Reader...
...revenooers collected from him because he had set foot on the tight little isle.* Last week, on his way to France by ocean liner, Expatriate Coward gazed fondly through a porthole when his ship put in at Plymouth. "Ah, this beautiful England!" sighed he. "One step on dear old England for me now and it's ?25,000 gone bang." Then, heart heavy but his bank account no lighter, he sailed on to France...
...strongly in favor of such non-U words as greens for vegetables, wealthy for rich, sweet for pudding, and wire for telegram. Graham Greene complained that by Nancy Mitford's exacting standard, Henry James would have to be considered non-U because he once began a letter "Dear Margot Asquith" instead of "Dear Mrs. Asquith." Another reader pointed out that Shakespeare's Richard II was addicted to using the non-U mirror. Sniffed Novelist Mitford: "It is probable that Richard II, like many monarchs, was non-U. As for Henry James ... he was an American...