Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sirs: I want to correct what seemed to me the wrong impression conveyed by your footnote on Senator Smoot, p. 12 (TIME, April 8). As a student of government, I have no special bias in favor of any party, nor am I any particular defender of Senator Smoot. I was, however, present at this meeting during the mayoralty campaign of 1927, at what was then the Metropolitan Opera House. This Republican mass meeting occurred near the close of a campaign notable chiefly for its utter lack of observance of the ordinary decencies of a campaign. Candidates were referred...
...know the story! ... I want to denounce it as a miserable lie. I wish I could see the scoundrel who started it. . I wish people would mind their own affairs and leave mine alone. ... Of course I do not pay the regular rates for a great big hotel apartment. What I do pay is nobody's damned business! I can afford to pay what they charge...
...more tangible sort is likely to be necessary. In order to make the rarer books in the collection generally available, it will be necessary to have a librarian in attendance at all times. The aid of such a person in helping patrons of the collection to find what they want and to care for the books would increase the desirability of his constant presence. As yet the funds for such a functionary have not been provided, but it is seldom that a good cause must cry unheard forever. It is to be hoped that the many unusually appealing features...
...this sound too harsh. The second act is easily worth waiting through the first and then you naturally want to see the matter consummated. Then it's all over. As a matter of cold act, as long as we have been but vaguely damning the first and third acts, the trouble consists in the first's being unbearably over-done, and the last's having no raison d'etre. To all intents and purposes the play ends with...
...want to know," the representative said, "and I believe the people of this state will want to know, what is the relation between the Harvard Business School and the power interests. That is one of the things I had in mind in asking in this resolve for an investigation of the activities in this Common-wealth of the National Electric Light Association...