Word: want
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Roosevelt joined by radio in dedicating a Will Rogers memorial museum and statue (by Jo Davidson) at Claremore, Okla. Excerpt: "When he [Rogers] wanted people to laugh out loud he used the methods of pure fun. And when he wanted to make a point for the good of all mankind, he used the kind of gentle irony that left no scars." Eddie Cantor said: "Any time you gave him a biscuit, he'd want to pay you back with a barrel of flour...
Judge Knox cautioned Lawyer Dix not to make speeches to the jury. "I want to show," replied jury-minded Mr. Dix, "that there was a conspiracy to allow Griebl to escape and to frame these smaller...
...When a newsman suggested: "Maybe C. I. O. has put on long pants" (i.e., grown up so that it will not go back to A. F. of L.), Frances Perkins cracked: "Do you want to see them sans culottes [pantsless...
...want car-radios...
...called on Dr. Abraham Brill, just then bringing out a translation of Freud. Dr. Brill asked if she had been psychoanalyzed. "What is psychoanalysis?" asked Mrs. Sanger. He explained, and then declared that after six weeks of his treatment she would not want to go on with the pamphlet. "Then I won't be analyzed," said Mrs. Sanger...