Word: want
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every filling station, general store, to distribute his own campaign literature. Negroes cannot vote in Florida Democratic primaries bub whenever Dave Sholtz spies a white man on one of Florida's long, straight roads, he stops his car, gets out to say: "I'm Dave Sholtz. I want you to vote for me for Senator." It is said he could sell fur boots in Miami...
...cold in the head had cut out Queen Elizabeth, who remained indoors while the picture was taken, and apparently cautious King George did not want any possible inference to be drawn from what might be so cut and printed as to seem to be a picture of His Majesty posing alone with Princess Elizabeth. Her Royal Highness was permitted to assume, in token that she has "somewhat grown up" at twelve years, her first appointment: president of the new Children's League of the Princess Elizabeth of York Hospital for Children in Shadwell, a grimy London slum. The little...
...birthday (April 23), before a crowd of nearly 1,000, including U. S. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, Mr. Shaw formally accepted the deeds to the site, remarked: "I suppose you have had me here today as the next best thing to Shakespeare. It is said that people do not want a National Theatre. . . . They got the British Museum, Westminster Abbey and the National Gallery that they did not want. But now . . . they like them." Americans, Shaw continued, should help pay for Britain's cultural institutions, for "they always visit them, but we never go near them ourselves...
...Albert), a sturdy downriver buck, strode into Housemaid Frankie's St. Louis bedroom with another woman. When Frankie ordered him to leave, he drew a knife. As Frankie edged toward her pistol she warned him: "You're trying to get me hurt, and I don't want me to hurt you. The best place for you to go is your mother." When Britt failed to take the hint, she shot him. Groaning on the floor, he gasped: "Oh, you have me." Frankie couldn't believe it. "You're just wanting to get up onto...
...over charts, plans alternate routes, prepares for every contingency of weather. One of ten in the U. S. to hold a Silver C License (international gliding license), he is also licensed to fly transport planes. The most ardent sailing enthusiasts, sea and sky, take to motor ships when they want to get somewhere...