Word: want
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Still appearing in London newspapers' want-ad columns, however, are advertisements of homes in "safe areas," installed with A. R. P. (Air Raid Precautions) devices. Banks, insurance companies and business concerns continued to buy houses in the country for emergency offices. Latest to arrange for, although not to buy, a country place for its staff and records is Lloyd's, insurance brokers...
...Children are sensitive to order. They want things in their right places, and in the same place all the time. They should be allowed to put things away and have the security of knowing they will find them where they were...
...Children sleep too much-chiefly because their parents want them out of the way. "The patience, niceness and indeed submissiveness of upper-class mothers to the nurses they employ are really a tacit understanding that they will forgive anything, bear anything, so long as the disturbing child is kept away from his parents and from their possessions." Instead of sleeping in prison-like cribs, children should have free, low beds near the floor...
...Dear German reader: I am writing you because I want peace. . . . Can you defeat us in a war? It would have to be a short war, a lightning war, as even your experts admit. It is said that you will bomb London from the air. All right, so what? . . . I admit that you could kill about 300,000 civilians. Certainly, if you think that over, you will realize that that will make you lose the war. Germany's name will stink to high heaven from north pole to south pole and it would draw the Americans into...
...selling Grapes of Wrath has passed the 155,000th mark, took his sore throat (from a recent tonsillectomy) and his badgered personality into seclusion in a California canyon, far from literary clubs and literary lion hunters. Said he: "I'm no public speaker, and I don't want...