" The letter would commence: " Dear Sir < Joseph >".

The letter reads: " Dear Sir, I wish to complain in the strongest possible terms about the song which you have just broadcast about the lumberjack who wears women's clothes.

On hearing this, Clarke sent a facetious letter to NASA's chief administrator: " Dear Sir, on checking my records, I see that I have never received payment for this work.

Dear Sir, – I am not surprised at your friend's anger, but he and you should know that to denounce the murders was the only course open to us.

When addressing a letter to the holder of a particular position without knowing the name or gender of the addressee, it is common to write " Dear Sir or Madam ,".

When writing to a newspaper editor, the correct English usage is to omit the " Dear " and commence simply " Sir ," or " Madam ," etc.

It is often used in formal correspondence ( Dear Sir, Right Reverend Sir ).

:: Dear Sir,

My Dear Sir —

Dear Sir: *** About two months since, during a dark and stormy night, our bank was entered by burglars, through an adjoining cellar wall, and the vault, which was of brick, was pierced, which left us without any other protection than one of your highly approved chilled iron Burglar-Proof Safes, with your magic lock attached ; these we deem sufficient, for they successfully resisted all the various devices and expedients known and practiced by burglars.

: Dear Sir

" Dear Sir / Madam,

* " The Sleepwalker ", a song by Cat Power from Dear Sir

*" Oh, Judge, Your Honor, Dear Sir, Sweetheart "/" Freddy, Freddy " ( 1961 Liberty 55314 )

* Dear Sir — 1924 ( music by Jerome Kern )

He is frequently referred to by his idiolect " Panie Kochanku " (" My Dear Sir ") to distinguish him from his earlier namesake ( 1669 – 1719 ).

* " Radziwiłł, Karol Stanisław ' Panie Kochanku '" (" Karol Stanisław ' My Dear Sir ' Radziwiłł "), Encyklopedia Polski ( Encyclopedia of Poland ), Kraków, Wydawnictwo Ryszard Kluszczyński, 1996, ISBN 83-86328-60-6, p. 564.

* Sir Geoffrey Dear QPM

In letter-writing, where others might use the phrase Dear Sir or Madam, many Quakers would instead write Dear Friend, and in such letters, rather than finishing yours faithfully would finish either yours in truth or yours in friendship.

The text reads as follows :< p > Dear Sir: Please give the proposition we are enclosing your most earnest consideration.

" Dear Sir: It has come to the attention of this office that you may be in violation of the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966 by the manner in which you are installing partitions in taxicabs and / or police cruisers .“

It began: " Dear Sir, I am extremely sorry to inform you that the barrack erected on Skerryvore Rock has totally disappeared.

`` Dear girl '', Walter had finally said, `` he writes me that he is sleeping in the English Gardens ''.

Paula says that even though Carl's letters usually began, `` Dear Miss Steichen '', there was an understanding from the beginning that they would become husband and wife.

`` Dear Miss Steichen: It is a very good letter you send me -- softens the intensity of this guerilla warfare I am carrying on up here.

`` Dear Doctors: We learned this year that our older son, Daniel, is autistic.

Dear Sirs: Let me begin by clearing up any possible misconception in your minds, wherever you are.

Dear heaven, no, thought Mr. Skyros, turning away as another man came in.

Dear God, at what a price.

Dear Arjuna, they are already dead.

A cappella groups exploded in popularity beginning in the 1990s, fueled in part by a change in style popularized by the Tufts University Beelzebubs and the Boston University Dear Abbeys.

Two nights after it opened, I ran into Noël Coward in a restaurant, and he walked over and he said, " Dear boy, it is hanged, not hung.

More recently, the horn section of Antibalas have been guest musicians on TV On The Radio's highly acclaimed 2008 album Dear Science, as well as on British band Foals ' 2008 album, Antidotes.

In 1965, she appeared as herself in the Hollywood production Dear Brigitte ( 1965 ) starring James Stewart, one of the few American films in which she appeared.

In 1893 the same printer brought several more drawings for Weatherly ’ s Our Dear Relations, another book of rhymes, and the following year Potter successfully sold a series of frog illustrations and verses for Changing Pictures, a popular annual offered by the art publisher Ernest Nister.

< p > Dear old Broadway, for many years have I dwelt on your borders.

Dear Pal, Tony: No, Ragtime Billy Tucker hasn't dropped completely out of existence, but is still in the ' Big Apple ', Los Angeles.

* The Dungeon Master, the 1985 non-fiction book by William C. Dear regarding the disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III

Defoe's description of Glasgow ( Glaschu ) as a " Dear Green Place " has often been misquoted as a Gaelic translation for the town.

The " Dear Green Place ", like much of Scotland, was a hotbed of unrest against the Union.

The " Dear Green Place " and " City of God " required government troops to put down the rioters tearing up copies of the Treaty, as at almost every mercat cross in Scotland.

" The host wrote to the critic, " Dear Miss Van Horne: You bitch.

* " Dear Dad ", episode twelve of the first season of M * A * S * H, used the framing device of a letter written by Hawkeye Pierce to his father to describe the events of the episode.

*" Dear Esther " is a 2012 video game by thechineseroom that allows the player to traverse an uninhabitated Hebridean island ; as the player does so letters and diary excerpts are recalled audibly by the narrator to reveal the story and encourage progression towards certain areas.

His last words, as recorded by his friend Beatus Rhenanus, were " lieve God ", Dutch for Dear God.

" Dear Mr Shaw Selections from Bernard Shaw's postbag " Bloomsbury, 1987 ISBN 0-7475-0256-0.

* Dear, I. C. B. and M. R. D. Foot, eds.