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Word: want (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe in the totalitarian state," declared Mr. Hopkins. "I don't want to vote in the same party primary, or for the same candidates, as any man whose fundamental political views are opposed to mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Janizariat | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...spokesman of his party to do? ... He is merely saying ... 'If you be lieve in the Administration, do not send these men back.' ... I know the President. . . . Adulation has not made him arrogant, defeat has not made him timid. What we have to decide is whether ... we want to abdicate the stronghold of Democracy or to fight for it. And I think we, too, have 'only just begun to fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Janizariat | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...collection of them. Here's a good one I heard the other day: A man appeared in court to have his name legally changed. Said the judge: "What is your name?" "Franklin Delano Stink," said the man. "Well, well," said the judge, "I should think you would want to change it. What do you want to change it to?" "Joe Stink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 5, 1938 | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

When one-fifth of the people of the U. S. want to know where there's a covey of quail, or a good trout hole, who's had a baby, what fresh cow is for sale, or how the road is down river way-they ask the.R. F. D. carrier. He or she (there are 323 shes among 32,988 U. S. rural mail-carriers) also has a good idea of who is going to vote for whom in an election year, and can do a lot toward getting folks to vote this way or that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVIL SERVICE: Post Offices on Wheels | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...want to be a little Jesus Christ," they said, "we'll make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Little Christ | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

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