Word: want
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...schoolchildren of the U. S. are nearly unanimous again this year about what-I-want-to-be-when-I-grow-up. When school let out early one day last week in St. Louis, practically no one sneaked to the movies. Some 60,000 small figures, and 40,000 large ones, massed on the Levee to watch the silver-winged Spirit of the city come whirring over to dip and circle in review at the Eads Bridge. Young St. Louis howled its delight...
...swart La Guardia began to talk: "Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I am as 'Wet' as any man in this House. . . . What we as 'Wets' ought to do ... is . . . insist upon the Prohibition Bureau having sufficient men, appropriating enough money. ... If the American people want Prohibition ... it will cost them anywhere from...
...Guardia: "No. I do not yield to the gentleman from Florida. Florida is so happily situated near the West Indies that you can get all the pure liquor you want and it is hypocritical to take any stand as to law enforcement...
...next election you of Alsace-Lorraine should put this question to those who want to represent you: 'Are you French? French without reserve, without consideration, with reticence...
Significantly at this point enters the question of Anschluss: the much- mooted union of Austria with Germany. Such union is believed by many economists to be vital to the commercial survival of Austria. It could be made unnecessary by moving the League to Vienna. But Germans want Anschluss, want to absorb Austria. Therefore Germany, with a Council Seat on the League, may be expected to fight tooth and claw any move to move the League...