Word: want
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...killed-all,'' wailed Mr. Matthews' hotel chambermaid, after living through the first twelve air raids in barely 24 hours. A Barcelona drugstore clerk from whom Mr. Matthews was buying medicine for a headache, sighed: "Oh, for a plane to fly to France! I don't want...
Picked for Jezebel's heroine was an actress largely overlooked in Gone With the Wind's nationwide parlor-casting bees, but one who came close to what the public seemed to want in Scarlett. That actress was Bette Davis-tempestuous, intense, compact & casehardened, with diamond dust in her voice, bug eyes lit with a cold blue glitter, and as wide a dramatic range as any cinemactress in the business...
...exception in this ring-around-a-rosy is Government. At this point Author Scherman, who says you must keep your shirt on if you want to understand economics, throws his hat on the ground and stamps on it. Government, says he, welshes on all its promises. It steals property through taxes, steals money through devaluation of the currency (which he compares to the "coldblooded cheating of little children"), milks the banks, shows an unbroken record of "fraud" for 3,000 years. Finally, says Author Scherman, the combination of all these Governmental dishonesties is the main cause of depressions...
...from forty-four states, who have expressed a desire to study at Harvard, ninety-eight select economics, ninety-six government and forty-three history. English comes next with thirty-six. We can remember--it was only a few years ago--when it seemed that every young man in journalism wanted to be a critic of the drama. But only three out of the list of applicants for Harvard list the drama as their principal interest. Most of the candidates say they want to go back to their papers after an enlightening year at Harvard, but that they hope...
...wide variety both of backgrounds and of experiences. As intelligent members of the working world, especially of the newspaper business, they should have great practical appeal to undergraduates. Besides those intending to enter journalism after graduation, students interested in hearing about the real side of labor and politics will want to meet the Fellows. The university can easily recognize this chance of introducing the world to Harvard by inviting men to attend the Fellowship discussions and perhaps by inducing certain of the Fellows to hold informal chats occasionally...