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Word: dears (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which has so little sound, was to discredit the respectability of a house in Fitzroy Square. And there you see me in the mud. Shall I argue that a mind that knows not Gibbon knows not mortality? or shall I affirm that bad English and respectability are twin sisters, dear to the telegram and odious to the artist...

Author: By John Sedgwick, | Title: A Painter at Her Easel | 4/13/1976 | See Source »

...went and had tea with Henry James today...[He] fixed me with his staring blank eye--it is like a childs [sic] marble--and said "My dear Virginia, they tell me--they tell me--they tell me--that you--as indeed being your fathers daughter nay your grandfathers grandchild--the descendent I may say of a century--of a century--of quill pens and ink--ink--ink pots, yes, yes, yes, they tell me--ahm m m--that you, that you write in short." This went on in the public street, while we all waited, as farmers wait...

Author: By John Sedgwick, | Title: A Painter at Her Easel | 4/13/1976 | See Source »

...DEAR GODPAPA HAVE YOU BEEN TO THE ADIRONDACKS? AND HAVE YOU SEEN LOTS OF WILD BEASTS AND A LOT OF BIRDS IN THEIR NESTS YOU ARE A NAUGHTY MAN NOT TO COME HERE GOOD BYE YOUR AFFECTe VIRGINIA...

Author: By John Sedgwick, | Title: A Painter at Her Easel | 4/13/1976 | See Source »

...embassy staffers on the situation. Rumors that the waves can cause leukemia, sterility in males or birth defects are circulating around the embassy. But morale remains good, nobody has yet requested a transfer, and some employees even manage weak jokes about the affair ("You're looking radiant today, dear"). "No one's mad at Stoessel," explains one diplomat in Moscow. "The resentment is directed against top management in Washington for not leveling with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Microwave Furor | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...serves as general manager of European operations for high-class jewelry. To reach customers who cannot afford traditional Cartier pieces that retail for $500,000 and up, they have established a lower-priced range of jewelry and set up 33 boutiques-called les musts (Franglais, as in "Dear, you must buy that for me") de Cartier-in cities round the world. Last year the Paris operation doubled its sales, to $50 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Nonfamily Reunion | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

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