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Word: want (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...member of the A.F.E.O.I.A.M.Y.W.T. (Association for Eating Oysters in Any Month You Want To) would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Wagon Wheels | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...bearers in tuxedos and white gloves, no grass skirts, no coconuts. Said John Metoyer's heir apparent to the Zulu presidency, Charles Fisher: "If it was me and I died right now, I'd have the biggest funeral in the history of New Orleans. I'd want exactly five bands and all that was due me. I'd want John Metoyer to do that for me, with all the trimmings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Coconuts | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Ohio seemed an outstanding example of the paradox of want in the midst of plenty. But Ohio's trouble was not essentially economic. Clue to the paradox was Politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OHIO: Politics | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...Communists held a meeting; he thought he heard a shot fired. Shaken but triumphant after his speech, he decided: "They driving me crazy-you know, I think this Jews are beginning to be afraid of me." But Fritz Kuhn was human: not only did he get angry, want some philosophy that made sense of his troubles-Fritz Kuhn also wanted sympathy, and not just from the Führer. And not just from quiet, patient Mrs. Kuhn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Trouble | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...your other boy friend witch bothers you so much-see darling your understand, if I want to know this things because you can imagine how much I am interested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Trouble | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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