Word: want
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make no secret of our desire to control the Panama Canal in inter-American relations. The United States does not want a provision that might jeopardize our communications, east, west, north, south, in any attack from the air." ¶ The ambitious project of founding a "Pan-American League of Nations" by endowing the Pan-American Union- with political powers was sacked in subcommittee and finally in committee by an adverse vote in the ratio of two to one. ¶ The Conference solemnly and gallantly assembled to hear speeches in behalf of Pan-American womanhood...
...eyes straight to the front, and to shun the temptation of the primrose path. Carry on till you sing to 'His Glory,' till you can make a weary people forget the troubles of reality. And good luck go with you. Now I shall open my door. I want to go into the arms of my mother, my dad-who always believed in me. Au revoir...
...these things when they go home to supper?" The people who stare at her pictures of apples, pears, eggplants, leaves, stalks, high buildings, rivers and tremendous flowers, interest her enormously. She, like George Bellows and unlike almost every other U. S. artist, has never gone abroad and doesn't want to; she paints all day on the 30th floor of the Shelton Hotel, Manhattan; her face is austere and beautiful; she does not own a fur coat...
...James Couzens, asking him for a $1,000 contribution to a girl's home. With a larger check, the senator sent Kresge some advice. This was the advice: "I do not know whether you have daughters,* but I do know that if you had any, you would not want to see them working for $7.52 a week [the average wage for girls in Kresge stores, according to a report scrutinized by Senator Couzens].... I think you could do a lot more for girls by paying them better wages than you can by subscribing money to rescue them after they...
Thomas "Red" Moran is young, anemic and a hardboiled yegg. A year ago, he murdered two policemen. When they tried him for this crime, he sneered at the judge. Said "Red" Moran: "I want to burn in the chair." The judge said he could have his wish...