Word: want
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mention a "mass" meeting of 1,500 (probably all Northerners) who protested the D. A. R.'s action, but no mention is made of the four hundred-odd thousands of white citizens of Washington who do not want the theatres which they patronize contaminated by colored entertainers...
...make fun of us because we try to step up production of eggs per hen or milk per cow? We have to, unless we want to make debts-and is it not more honorable for a poor man to work hard and to be saving, rather than borrow from his neighbors...
...this is like modern war: undeclared. Minds have split, but the men haven't. John Garner does not want to fight with the President-not if he can help it. For the Party's sake he wants no open rupture. And as an old deerhunter he knows that you don't cut a buck's throat until it quits thrashing. Franklin Roosevelt is still much alive and kicking...
About Galento, Joe Louis' only recorded remark is: "What fo' dat funny li'l fat man want to go 'round callin...
...first foreigner (except for members of the tiny Dutch colony at Deshima) to live in Japan since the expulsion of the Catholic missionaries in 1638, Harris had no battleships to back him. The State Department left him to shift for himself. The Japanese distinctly did not want him around, Commodore Perry notwithstanding. They asked him to go home on the ship he came on. When he refused, they set a cheeky guard around his miserable house, prohibited his traveling more than seven miles from the dismal fishing village of Shimoda, gave him diseased chickens to eat, picked on his Chinese...