Word: wanting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...write to express my appreciation of the kind and generous manner in which you have used the name of my sainted brother W. J. While I do not feel that I am worthy of having my name mentioned with his in the connection that it is used, yet I want you to know of my appreciation of the honor you do me both in associating my name with his and in mentioning my name as a prominent Nebraskan...
...Ontario and Quebec do not get fair returns for their forest wealth, we will have to do something. We can do almost anything, but we do not want to make the price of paper, for when a government intervenes to fix the price of merchandise it does not succeed generally. Our Canadian manufacturers believe that $60 would be a fair return...
...want no women and I want no tears," were almost his last words.* "Let me die before...
...Catholic and fiery Atheist. They had to clash. They could win the War without coming to an actual break, but not the Peace. Which was right? Foch will always get his due as Conqueror. Hear Clemenceau: "We disagreed entirely on the question of the Franco-German frontier. The Marshal wanted me to annex the Rhineland, and wrote me so. I did not want to have a new Alsace-Lorraine that would send protesting deputies to the French Chamber, as Alsatian deputies were sent to the Reichstag after 1871. So Woodrow Wilson, Lloyd George and myself drew the Franco-German frontier...
...street. On a stool in the studio was found page 26 of the Nov. 1 issue of Life, pinned down with a meat knife. The page contained a sketch showing a burglar, while his colleague comes down their ladder with swag, whispering to a policeman: "Shhh. We want this to be a surprise...