Word: want
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York City's vigorous young Racketbuster Thomas Edmund Dewey* not only gave impetus to a new cinema vogue but set up a lively demand for real life counterparts as well. Last month, before his legislature met, Missouri's Governor Lloyd Crow Stark published a tempting want ad. If any place needed a Dewey, thundered the Governor, it was that haven of corruption, Kansas City, stamping ground, of his old enemy, Boss Tom Pendergast. Governor Stark ordered his Attorney General Roy McKittrick to go into action. Last week the play was taken out of McKittrick's reluctant hands...
...They want [an editor] who cannot read or write, make a speech, a broadcast, or walk. What they want is a mummy, a dummy and a 'flummy...
...company is obliged to pay Mr. McLaughlin's minima, but all who want a share of the Government's steel orders above $10,000-amounting to $63,000,000 last year-will have to comply...
...voice broke then, but through tears he spoke on: "I am an old man. . . Somehow ... I must find out ... whether I have loved ones who have given me up for dead. ... I do not want to die nameless and alone...
...want to swear," he said quietly...