Word: want
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alfred Emanuel Smith stayed in bed till 10 a.m. at West Palm Beach, Fla. Cornered by newsgatherers he said, "Well, I'd forgotten the date. It is really March 4 now, isn't it? No, I don't think I shall tune in. What I want to do is shoot some golf." Asked if he had sent a message to Mr. Hoover, he answered, "Why should I bother him to read a telegram from me? I called on him a while ago personally and gave him my good wishes." Out on the golf course while the inauguration...
...United States." Is it the Senate's consent that is meant, or the President's or what? Reservation V is thus not only arrogant but obscure, and therefore the League and Court States refused (1926) to accept the adherence of the U.S. on such terms ?much as they want to welcome the U.S. into the World Court, which is the judicial antechamber of the political League of Nations...
...Hawes goes at the task of tearing them away from the medical profession as if he expected to be accused of sacrilege. But it is the fashion nowadays to reduce science into terms intelligible to the layman, and his tone of frankness will be appreciated by those who want to understand the causes and reasons for their ailments...
...opinion, one of the most important causes for this impending collapse of our civilization is the demoralizing effect of the American motion picture upon the minds of the people of the world. Directors seem to want not only to please the public, but to educate them to the cheap things. We have reached a fine state of affairs indeed, when a bunch of ignorant movie directors try to improve upon the works of the world's greatest writers and as a result drag their masterpieces down to the level of cheap comedy. Look what they did when they...
...latest of his plays to reach Broadway he starts with an excellent idea. He evidently is bent on making fun of the snobbish folk who bow to royalty. So he spins the plausible tale of a restless adventurer who, for want of a better occupation, created himself a prince of a non-existent buffer state. The kowtowing proceeds until he meets his deserted wife who brings him back to earth. All is well while Mr. Milne is making fun of snobbery, but when he dips into romance he starts unwittingly to make fun of himself...