Word: desiree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That "everybody wants to be American" in Russia is not as unanticipated as it first appears. Hitherto the desire has resulted in a flood of Russian emigrants to the United States; and since America has at last shut her doors the impulse must of course seek expression in a less...
The brothers and sisters of the P. E. N., who are holding their second annual convention in New York, are not alone in their desire to end war. Ever since the signing of the armistice, and even, in the instance of the Peace Ship, before it, this has been the...
The desire of the impressive gathering of celebrities now in New York, in whose ranks are poets, playwrights, editors, ossayists, and novelists, is wholly admirable but at present a trifle vague. If instead of aiming blindly toward the elimination of war, this group of intellectuals, trained to manipulate the force...
"Often today," Professor Morize went on, "the most difficult thing is not to do one's duty, but to know what that duty is. A first class character will strongly desire to do his duty, but with a second class brain it may lead to a bad mistake. I find...
It is difficult to determine fairly whether the Yale vote is but a sign of temporary mens iusana, or a result of an understandable desire to smash traditions, or in fact, as educators will fear, a last crushing blow delivered to free the glorious American sports forever from the age...