Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women who come for the summer fishing, or for the fall hunting (partridge, duck, caribou, moose), Newfoundland has long been an unspoiled sportland. This year-Newfoundland's first as a Canadian province-thousands of tourists who want neither to fish nor hunt will view the magnificent scenery of the island (42,734 sq. mi.) and get a glimpse of the picturesque life of its people...
...want all hell to break loose!" bellowed Impresario Leon Leonidoff one morning last week in the rehearsal gloom of Manhattan's cavernous Radio City Music Hall. By the time the Russian accent had floated up to the stage, about half a block away, things had begun...
...Lutherans gave the report a restrained welcome. Last week Eric Ruden, general secretary of Sweden's Baptist Union (40,000 members), said: "The most important question . . . abolition of the state church, has not been touched. This is a step forward . . . but we want religious freedom as in the United States...
...Want Minnie." Plump, greying little Minnie (Mrs. Charles) Guggenheimer, 67, had not planned to make a speech this year; in 32 years as boss of the stadium concerts, she had made the same decision only once or twice before. But when the chant, "We want Minnie, we want Minnie," showed no signs of a diminuendo, Minnie gave...
...Want Gershwin. Since the day in World War I when Minnie talked wealthy (copper mining) Adolph Lewisohn (Sam's father) into giving concerts free for the troops in his newly built City College stadium, she has also given her audiences great music year after year for ticket prices as low as 25?. She has given some new composers (George Gershwin) and little-known soloists (Marian Anderson) their first big concert breaks. The stadium's annual Gershwin nights are still its most frequent sellouts...