Word: intentions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...human race is divided into three types, tall, stocky and neutral," he said. "The overweight and underweight problem will also be discussed. I intent to use many charts and graphs throughout the talk to illustrate my points...
...Soong, Harvard '15, she has been closely identified with the Hankow Nationalist Government in which he was Finance Minister. In person she is charming, in mentality alert, in speech sometimes caustic. Observers, knowing her passionate Nationalist zeal, wondered if she married Chiang Kaishek, last week, with intent to rouse him from retirement to renewed leadership of a Nationalist military force...
...days of Harkness, when Chapel Street was but a winding lane, and gin was in its infancy (I dearly loved a good snipe hunt. With a small group of friends (the Heffeifinger boys, and, now and then, Fannie Ward) I would while away the long Connecticut afternoons, ever intent on the elusive snipe. Garbed in sundry clothing and an umbrella slickers were then a practically unknown territory, we would roam through the bills, little dreaming what the morrow held in store. Which reminds me (just why, I don't know) that a friend of mine was telling me only...
...foot of these steps the presidential car awaited. As the hoary president, hero of the Greece-Turkish Wars of 1897 and 1912-13, entered the automobile, a young man, one Zafioios Goussios, approached with apparent intent to serve a petition upon the chief executive. Policemen beamed paternally. The president was so democratic that anybody could approach him, thought they. Yes, indeed, all Athens was accustomed to seeing him walk the street, quite alone, and often a stranger would salute him and perhaps pass a few words about this and that...
...what, in faith, make you from Wittenberg?" At that German university Martin Luther taught philosophy in 1508. Hamlet, before his father's murder had muddled his feelings and emotions, had spent happy undergraduate semesters there. He longed to return. But his uncle-stepfather* urged: "For your intent in going back to school in Wittenberg, it is most retrograde to our desire; and we beseech you, bend you to remain here, in the cheer and comfort of our eye, our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son." His mother-aunt added: "Let not thy mother lose her prayers, Hamlet. I pray...