Word: dears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...usual weedy charm and blithering idiocy. He is cast as a retired major who shares a flat in Kensington with three maiden ladies (Athene Seyler, Elspeth Duxbury, Hattie Jacques) while together they subside regretfully into "the teatime of life." What to do with themselves? Suddenly one of the dear old things has an inspiration that could lend vast new dimensions to the science of geriatrics: Why not organize a crime syndicate and devote the profits to a Worthy Cause? "Splendid!" cries the major, and in absurdly elaborate military detail he proceeds to plan an assault on the gang...
...editors, persuaded 44 of them to buy "The Worrier's Guide" for $1 or $2 a column. As "Jan Webster," she plows through some 120 letters a week, often squinting at an eight-page scrawl of a distressed farmwife, edits the most interesting to a printable size. A "Dear Jan" sampler...
...Dear Old Brother. Here and there were unreservedly hostile voices. The Tampa Tribune stiffly declared that "a President doesn't appoint a member of his family to the Cabinet," and the Chicago Tribune, in an editorial entitled "Dear Old Brother of Mine," pointedly quoted Woodrow Wilson's letter refusing to appoint his brother Joseph as postmaster in Nashville, Tenn. ("It would be a very serious mistake both for you and for me"). Bobby had defenders too ("There is no doubt," said the Denver Post, "of Robert Kennedy's competence or zeal to do his job"), and even...
...Treasury Anderson, one very senior German whispered jokingly to a colleague: "I hope the ambassador can afford to feed us." The London Daily Herald had a nice old British lady tiptoe up to five G.I.s and offer to repay past U.S. generosity by sending food parcels to help "your dear ones over the economic crisis." The Daily Mail's Columnist John Jelley found a silver lining in the gold crisis (see BUSINESS), because now Americans "will be forced to realize that the world is not, after all, half antique shop and half soup kitchen with them as guardian angels...
...That dear good man, with Prufrock...