Word: dears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Guess who's calling, dear...
...dear," says Phyllis McGinley to Goldman. "I'm getting an honorary degree at St. John's University on Long Island on the 13th. I don't know whether I could get to Washington on time. On the other hand...
...dear, I don't want to go," she tells her husband after ringing off. "I never do that kind of thing...
...this is President Johnson! Your President, dear. You voted for him." Seizing the opportunity for husbandly mischief, he adds: "It isn't as if it were my favorite President, Warren Gamaliel Harding...
...that her verse might not produce an instant livelihood, she took a job teaching English in a junior high school in New Rochelle, 17 miles north of New York City. She sold a few verses to The New Yorker, then got a plaintive note from Fiction Editor Katherine White: "Dear Miss McGinley: We are buying your poem, but why do you sing the same sad songs all lady poets sing?" Phyllis took the hint, began turning out light and amusing verse...