Word: dears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...post office employee came out with two huge mail bags and waited as demonstration leaders held the mailbox open for the letters to the President. An elderly woman stepped out of line and wrote a postcard as her friend dictated from hers: "Dear President Johnson, Support federal force in Mississippi. Congratulations on your stand thus...
...round the dear old sycamores...
...husband who died for Prince Charlie in 1746. There are also work songs. Gentle Lady is sung to the rhythmic accompaniment of milk squirting into a pail. It would be hard for any cow to resist Kate Nicholson crooning: "Ruddy-faced and smooth-cheeked, gentle lady, you are my dear one. The calves have sucked, O gentle lady." The real thing by real folk, collected and selected by Alan Lomax and two Scottish experts...
Everybody else was writing the Internal Revenue Service, too, but the U.S.'s top female folk singer sent the revenooers a slightly offbeat message. She started chummily enough. "Dear Friends," said the handwritten letter, "What I have to say is this: I do not believe in war. I do not believe in the weapons of war. I am not going to volunteer the 60% of my year's income tax that goes to armaments. I am no longer supporting my portion of the arms race. Sincerely yours-Joan C. Baez...
...looked, as always, as if he had just risen from a sumptuous and civilized dinner with dear old friends. And, as always, the banquet was just about to start. Striding onstage to his Steinway, he turned to his devoted audience at Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall with the suave little bow that he has made on more stages than any other pianist in history. Then Artur Rubinstein addressed himself to the feast: both of the Brahms concertos, either one of which is more than a good night's labor. But his strength and sureness only grew as he played...