Word: wish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wish to congratulate you upon your well chosen news in Medicine. I was especially pleased to note that you commended Julius Rosenwald's latest philanthropy in establishing a clinic for the middle class. I wish others would follow his good example, for nowhere is there a greater need than help for the "poor and proud" in serious illness, by endowing good Hospitals so they can make rates that can be met by people of moderate means...
...order to clarify the misunderstanding which has arisen in regard to the Senior Album Committee, I wish to make the following statement...
...reputed to contain a tragic significance. A half-French-half-native girl (Helen Menken) would rather be alone in the jungle with her native lover and their native child than have 100,000 Frenchmen at her feet. Circumstances, however, again and again prevent the fulfillment of her life wish and she ends up as the best congai of Indo-China-the congai of the French governor...
Also on the air last week was Ganna Walska, charming wife of Harold McCormick, famed more for her wish to sing than for any actual singing. Many a manager has announced Wisher Walska, many an audience has been disappointed until newsmen have denied her a voice and she herself has pleaded stagefright. Evidently the microphone held less terror than a sea of faces for Wisher Walska sang over the radio last week as scheduled, prettily, quaveringly, the "Dich teure Halle" from Tannhauser, Giordoni's Coro Mio Ben, and "Daddy's Sweetheart" by Liza Lehmann...
...fault of the clergy that these beliefs are not already generally accepted, according to Rev. Guy Emery Shipler, editor of The Churchman. "They don't wish to disturb older members of their congregations with modern ideas...