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Word: want (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor could wait until the Legislature adjourns and then do as he pleased. Day after the Assembly passed the bill, the Governor conferred for an hour with ousted President Glenn Frank, who flatly assured a reporter: "Let me say, once and for all, that I do not want to return to the presidency of the University of Wisconsin and would not, under any circumstances, return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Again, Wisconsin | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...real Furor imprisoned as an impostor, masquerading Charlie is involved by his air minister, Herring, in an aggressive campaign to humble the neighboring State of Vanilla. It is to the people of Vanilla, soon humbled, that old Pantymimist Chaplin makes his first big speech: "I don't want to conquer anybody. I want to do good by everybody. Because-because this is a big world, and there's plenty of room for all of us in it. Yes. Even for dictators. Even for Hinkle! Hinkle. He wants to do right. He's just full of hate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Scripteaser | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...baby. Last week at Atlanta's big, good-willing congress of the Baptist World Alliance, even the highest-minded Southerners felt sticky when, congregating in social groups, they were approached by a Negro who repeatedly exclaimed: "I am a Negro. I don't guess you want me around." The Negro, Dr. H. M. Smith of Chicago, thereupon telegraphed newspapers, declaring that "numerous racial signs" were displayed at the congress meeting place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: No Nonsense | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...want to stir up any bitter feeling about foreign nations lying to the west of us, but I do say that I would regret to see further aggression on the part of a nation all of whose admirals and generals seem to look precisely like Roy W. Howard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Old Timers | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...Remo, Italy, Maria Piombo, 39, stalked up and down swank Empress Boulevard wearing a sandwich board which read: "I want a husband, even a used one." Arrested, she admitted that she only wanted to embarrass a man who had jilted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 7, 1939 | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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