Word: desiree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"The great Republic of the United States and the Commonwealth of Australia stand for the same ideals and same traditions. Facing similar problems under vastly different circumstances, both desire maintenance of the world's peace and the limitation of the burden of armaments.
There was more to it than that. Behind Mr. Churchill were assumed to be Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain and the Secretary for India, Lord Birkenhead, all ex-coalition Ministers. Nasty things were said about Mr. Churchill; he was credited with a desire to oust Premier Baldwin and, with the aid...
"It is from no motive of pride or vanity that I desire to keep Kedleston estate intact and the mansion with its contents well cared for, but because, attaching as I do a high value to the survival of the landed aristocracy of Great Britain and believing they may still...
"That is a legitimate desire, which no one in the world would be so unjust as to deny us; for no country in the world has in the past half century given such proof as France of faithful attachment to the ideals of peace.
Pipers who desire, in these times, to be paid by those who dance, vie with one another to find new pipes.