Word: craving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...14th. Up pretty betimes, and, very merry, by foot to the office reading a Valentine: "I play for your heart, sweet one, Yet win it may I never do; For it isn't the prize I crave But only the game to pursue: La, la!" It be signed, "Fanny". But, bless my soul, I know no "Fanny". Yet if "Fanny" be as bad as her poetry, methinks nothing is missed...
...institution of a series of lectures on clothes and personal appearance at Wellesley. A consultant on dress and personal appearance is scheduled for a week's stay on the campus, during which time she will deliver four lectures, hold 17 conferences, and, in her spare time, receive those who crave a private interview...
...eating before she will touch food. The expression in her eyes while she watches the male eat is beautiful. . . . All the animals know me and talk to me in their own languages asking for food. They feed these animals hay and grain and meat when what they need and crave is fresh vegetables. Think of all the castor oil they've had to give the elephants because they let them have peanuts and candy and stuff like that. The poor animals are mistreated. They are imprisoned for lifetime in cages that are much too small. My destiny is to help...
...trouble with the candy industry is that anyone can go into business with a few pounds of sugar and a kettle. Before the War candy was primarily for children. War made the armies crave the quick-burning carbohydrates of candy which their governments did not supply. After the War candy became a $400,000,000 industry, with only 47 others ahead of it in size and importance. Last week the National Confectioners Association, reshuffled by Depression and reunited by an NRA code, met in convention in Manhattan and announced that candy sales for 1934's first four months were...
...letter to his daughter, he wrote: "I do not know how to turn. I have been thinking so much day and night-all these weeks, months and years, my head is in a whirl and I crave rest-just rest, and there is only one place where it is to be found. . . . But I want you to know, dear Teta, that regardless of any charges by bank officials, not one cent has ever been taken by me in any way. On the contrary, all I have saved, my life savings for mother and you, have gone into the bank...