Word: wish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alumna of Wellesley College, I wish to take exception to your reference to Katharine Lee Bates, author of "America the Beautiful" as "onetime Wellesley professor." Herself a graduate of Wellesley, after a lifetime of service to the college from instructor to head of the department of English literature, she is now professor emeritus, honored and well beloved for "all times...
...glad to report that the Mexican Ambassador has recently declared to me that she [Mexico] does not intend to confiscate our property, that she has shown diligence in capturing and punishing those who have murdered our citizens, and expressed the wish, which we so thoroughly entertain, of keeping cordial and friendly relations...
...Stokowski obviously did not wish to make a speech. He bowed and retreated a dozen times, feeling, perhaps, that the eloquence of 15 years, during which he had patiently fashioned the orchestra into an outstanding U. S. institution, could not be improved upon by extemporaneous phrases at a perfunctory moment. Or perhaps, knowing his people, he was heightening his effect...
...hundred Bowery bummers signed and sent a petition to Salvation Army authorities last week: "We, the undersigned, wish Isabella Austin to stay on the Bowery. She did a lot for us while she was here and we do not want to lose her." The girl, 19, blond, slim, small, cheery, had been giving street talks along the Bowery the past three months, had led many a corner prayer. But the strict Salvation Army rule, that workers must be frequently shifted to new localities, was behind her instructions to proceed to Morristown, N. J. Her orders not rescinded, she reported there...
...CRIMSON's intent to review Mr. Lowes remarkable study at this particular time nor in this place. It does wish, however, to indicate the gratefulness with which "The Road to Xanadu" should be accepted by undergraduates of the university-undergraduates especially because they are the ones who are least likely to commend painstaking research and those who are quickest to dismiss anything scenting of long labor as being pedantical and therefore unworthy of enthuslastic praise. Here is a book which had its origin among dusty shelves but which by virtue of a creative mind, tuned to analysis, has been transformed...