Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about becoming its president, and George Rea thought that would be fine. In seven years he built Bishop's assets from 30 to 50 millions, enjoyed himself no end with golf, surfriding and singing in a barber-shop quartet. He resigned last December, took his wife on a long vacation in the Orient and the Philippines. Last week he landed in San Francisco, received a telephone call from one of the Curb Exchange's Silent Five, rushed to Manhattan and landed...
...Grover Whalen suggested the fair in 1935 and a civil engineer named Joseph Shadgen came through with a historical excuse-the 150th anniversary of Washington's inauguration; Shadgen also suggested the site-a foul ash dump in Corona, L. I. which New York Park Commissioner Robert Moses had long itched to clean up. The original scheme was a fair the size of the Century of Progress. But with the Magnificent Whalen in the driver's seat and a flashy theme, "Building the World of Tomorrow," the budget mushroomed threefold...
From the first, Stevens saw that the Civil War would be a long war, ridiculed the statesmen who thought the South would be exhausted in six months, urged that it be "laid waste," "depopulated," "planted with a new race of freemen." He saw that slavery was the basic economic and military weapon of the South, might be similarly exploited by the North, insistently urged the freeing of the slaves...
...afterwards he died. He was buried in a Negro cemetery -"not from any natural preference for solitude," says his epitaph, "but finding other cemeteries limited by charter rules as to race, I have chosen this that I might illustrate in my death the principles which I advocated through a long life, equality of man before his Creator." (By all the evidence, Thad Stevens was an atheist...
...when it comes to living, they's not any way you can plan it and have it go according." He doesn't blame the Government though. "Our troubles," guesses Farmer X, "is just because we've lived too long...