Word: dears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dear TIME-Reader...
...that always went on in the house: Father would say, "You took me for better or for worse," and Mother would reply: "Well, you're worse than I took you for." There is the Democratic Party, treated like an old friend of the family ("President Wilson is a dear!!!" Buffie noted in her diary). Above all, there is the whole warm, clubby, and highly articulate atmosphere of a fortunate class and generation. Its only gnawing worry, perhaps, was to reconcile a sheltered and comfortable existence with the conscience pangs of the 20th century...
Benjamin Franklin once expressed the humorous hope that, by being embalmed in wine, he might come to life in the future "and observe the state of America . . . my dear country." Had his wish been fulfilled, Old Printer Franklin would have found America churning out printed matter beyond his wildest dreams (or fears). At present, he would have found a good deal of that printed matter devoted to himself, for this month marks the 250th anniversary of his birth. Among the month's Franklin literature...
...himself and his young country by the simple process of being his commonsensical self. And common sense is the quality that shines in all the Franklin works, from Poor Richard's early-to-bed, early-to-rise almanac platitudes to his witty letters. Yet Franklin's "dear country" needs, in the 20th century, more than common sense-and there is more than that to be found in Franklin's life and writings. It took more than common sense-namely, guts-to face the wigs of 18th-century Europe in a fur cap. It took more (or perhaps...
...love one another. It seems to me that they are a little misplac'd, and that the last should have been the first. However, I never made any Difficulty about that, but was always willing to obey them both whenever I had an Opportunity. Pray tell me, my dear Casuist, whether my keeping religiously these two Commandments, may not be accepted in Compensation for my breaking so often one of the Ten, I mean that which forbids Coveting my Neighbor's Wife...