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Word: desiree (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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A munificent donor whose desire for anonymity carried him so far as to sign a fictitious name to his checks caused some worry and disappointment at Phillips Brooks House recently when his $5000 Christmas contribution vanished in thin air.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $5000 SANTA CLAUS GOES UP P. B. H. CHIMNEY IN HOT AIR | 1/16/1924 | See Source »

"My task in the Embassy will be all the more difficult after a series of brilliant representatives of Great Britain during a long period of years. However, my feelings toward the United States have always been the warmest from earliest manhood, and whatever it is possible to do toward strengthening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sir Esme Speaks | 1/14/1924 | See Source »

Le Temps, Paris semi-official daily: "We may be permitted to observe, without a desire of discouraging the good-will affirmed, that the real remedies for the foreign exchange situation lie neither in the domain of repression nor of regulation. Measures of the kind adopted in foreign countries, notably Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Franc | 1/14/1924 | See Source »

Dear Sir: Having had another Sunday spoiled by the bitter schismatic and unscriptural preaching of the stated supply of the First Presbyterian Church of Princeton, I desire to give up my pew in the church. The few Sundays that I have free from evangelical work to spend with my family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Van Dyke's Pew | 1/14/1924 | See Source »

In submitting this plan to the vote of the nation through the ballots printed in newspapers and distributed by organizations of every type, business, professional, and civic; The American Peace Award offers to the American people an opportunity of affirming that they desire to cooperate as a nation with other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Larger Union | 1/14/1924 | See Source »

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