Word: intending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will not be swaddled, as is the current fashion, in soft bales of superlative adjectives and the ejaculations of self-advertising pre-reviewers. The election of Mr. Cabell as first to bear the new John Day insignium, in a limited edition (3,000 copies), is evidence that the publishers intend kindly towards fine writing, and the book's artistic execution intimates that the houses of Brentano, Knopf, Boni & Liveright, the Viking Press, A. & C. Boni, Houghton Mifflin and their peers are to have company in their pursuit of fine printing...
Barnum: "You don't mean to say you will never marry?" Nutt: "No, not exactly." Barnum: "I suppose you intend to marry one of your size...
...houses. To me it is an interesting industry. I was rather offended when you dismissed it with a snicker-"shoe-polish." You might almost as well call the packing industry the "pigsfeet people"-the farmers of the world "manure spreaders." This is a carping letter, although I did not intend it so. Pride injured by an error of omission prompted it. Perhaps sometime in the near future you will have an opportunity to discuss Southern progress. If so, I trust that you will remember this unique field, devote to it a paragraph or two. CHAS. A. HAZEN
...unusually keen competition, were it not for the recommendation of President Crowley of the Fleet Corp. Assured of operating the line, this youngest living son of the late President Roosevelt exclaimed: "I am convinced that there is an excellent future for the American Merchant Marine and intend to devote all my time toward making my operations a success...
Somewhat less formal but equally hearty is the program proclaimed by a group of fearless Manhattan students who intend to ship in cattleboats or steerage, sleep in their clothes on European railroads, enter Sovietland and there gather first-hand material for what all government experts, professional press men and inquisitive business representatives are believed to have left unwritten-"a lucid and penetrating report on Russia...