Word: want
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with Reader Smith that we should strive to give Mr. Hitler generations of free advertising by incorporating his name into our language. . . . It seems to me that the suggested word "hitler" savors too much of yielding, because of temporary emotion, to the childish impulse to "call names.". . . If I want to do something along that line, why not incorporate the word "Munich," using it to signify "a bloodless coup achieved by bad faith, trickery and deceit...
...campus, never misses football practice, belittles his own talents, bends over backward to praise his teammates. After he scored all 27 points in the Iowa game three weeks ago, he said: "Anybody could have done it with that Evashevski [200-pounder who once said he didn't want to-play football if he couldn't "crack 'em"] and those others in there blocking like that. They don't make them any better than that Evashevski...
...position to be War Baby No. 1, as in the last war, but I can tell you that our directors and our associates don't want that kind of business. I'd like to see the war stop today. Bethlehem would be better...
When Lady Baldwin of Bewdley recently visited Manhattan with her husband, she wanted to see the General Motors Futurama exhibit at New York's World's Fair, but did not want to wait in line. She asked her husband, Earl Baldwin (Stanley Baldwin), to fix it up. He telephoned the British Consulate; the Consulate called the British Embassy in Washington; the Embassy, faced by a new problem in protocol, cabled the Foreign...
Yardlings are urged to come and meet the girls they will want to go out with for the next four years. There will be no definite date assignments, and every Harvard man will get a chance to meet more than one collegian. Most of the Radcliffe Freshman class will be in the turnout, and Wellesley will be heavily represented...