Word: want
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Thompson, probing deeper, declares: "If [a woman] is about to have a child and does not want it she can get rid of it legally, and, if the State considers her reason adequate, in a free clinic...
Another contradiction: 1) "In Russia . . . where are the rich? There are none. And where the groveling, feverish poor? Gone also. . . . You cannot feel want here any more than you can feel material luxury, they are not," but 2) "Prices of everything were outrageously high, salaries could not compare with what things cost and there was never enough of anything, neither food nor entertainment, nor what you would...
...Costigan began calling Mr. Marvin a "lobbyist" when the latter was first appointed by President Harding. And Mr. Marvin was a lobbyist in Washington, for the wool trade. That is why President Harding appointed him. That is politics. "Give as many people as much as they want as much of the time...
...took notes, then told a Montreal audience of his findings: "Whiskey is $10 a quart in Chicago. ... It is said that prohibition has been a failure in New York but I learned that societies which used to care for neglected children have closed their doors for want of something to do. Prohibition is the best thing that ever struck...
Frances Alda (soprano, wife of Giulio Gatti-Casazza, czar of the Metropolitan Opera Company) has no children, wants some. Said she: "In a few months I shall ask Miss Spence of the Spence School [Manhattan] to find me two adorable babies. I do not believe in the heredity jinx. I ask only that the babies be intelligent and healthy. I'll want them, regardless of parentage or legitimacy...