Word: wish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They have not been viewed with sufficient perspective to prevent their growing maudlin. The action is unbalanced. It wobbles off into a mist of emotion and disappears from sight. Author Smith's last book, Topper (1926), was in a happier, lighter, suburban vein to which his readers may well wish he would return...
Meanwhile, in many another city, honor was paid. In Chicago, for example, Dr. Morris Lychenheim, who has organized annual fellowship dinners since 1900 for all who wish to attend, said: "The Walt Whitman meeting is a town meeting...
Many times Father Sill has said: "I'd like to take my crew to England." A few parents hinted that the publicity of such a trip would be harmful to schoolboy athletes-contrary to Kent's traditions of simplicity. But Father Sill quickly shaped his wish into a plan, and last week sailed with his crew squad for England, student third class on the Berengaria. The Kent crew will enter the Henley Regatta, will also row separate races with Eton and Radley, will visit Oxford and Cambridge...
...Finally, the third part of my speech will contain a polemic, a part for which, as you know, I am particularly fitted [laughter], and during which I wish to amuse myself by goading all internal and external enemies of the Fascist regime [approval...
Irked, irate, President George P. Johnson last week gave the disaffected employes a thoroughgoing reprimand: "The profit sharing is not necessarily a permanent plan. . . . To those that are dissatisfied with the results of last year's business I recommend a prompt resignation. . . . I wish such would quit. I am sincere in this wish. . . ." The vigor as much as the common sense of the words gave the grumblers a change of heart. Practically all went back to their work cheerfully...