Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...products. Then the Senate agreed to get down seriously to arguing four days later, and meantime took a rest. The lineup showed three groups: 1) The regular Republicans, supposedly in favor of plenty of tariff of all kinds. 2) The group of Midwestern, more or less insurgent Republicans, who want only a tariff on agriculture. 3) The Democrats, supposedly in favor of very little tariff of any kind. But the lineup meant little. There are regular Republicans only half-hearted about many tariff items. And all good Democrats want some tariff or other for their people at home. The Insurgents...
...points of difference between Britain and the U. S. on this question had been ironed out. What were the three points? Correspondents tried so hard to guess that they well nigh ignored a much more significant passage in which Mr. MacDonald said, "What we [Britain and the U.S.]want to get is an agreement which, having been made, can be a preliminary to the calling of a Five-Power Naval Conference, the other Powers being as free to put in their proposals and we being as free to negotiate with them as though no conversations had taken place between America...
...Wall Street corruption. It has that annoying air of knowingness peculiar to bad parlor realism. In extraordinarily ornate offices, ballrooms, conservatories, H. B. Warner, Lois Wilson and Jason Robards argue and glare and pull each other around. The triangle includes a banker and his son who do not want their accounts investigated, a government investigator, and the investigator's wife who was once-and still is-in love with the banker's son. People who go to the movies every night will have trouble making out who is the hero and who is the villain and this difficulty...
Uglier grew the crowd. "We want no underfed beauty queens here!" cried a roughster. "Let's make her eat some pork!" As the rowdies rushed, even saucy Magda Dimitrescu became frightened, seized Lisl Goldarbeiter by the wrist, dragged her through a baggage room and out by a back alley to sanctuary in the Bucharest Rumanian Orthodox Cathedral...
...like your victory?' . . . Well, my soul revolted. I thought over my life, the many unworthy things I have done to others, the injustice, the wrongs I have been guilty of, the human hearts I have wantonly hurt. ... If society will let me, I want to unlock that barred door and for the rest of my life try to get nearer the spirit of Christ...