Word: wish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wish to thank you for your summary of the work of the Seventieth Congress, TIME, March 19, under NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Senator Coleman Blease of South Carolina, who "loves all the citizens of America," made a speech quoting an anonymous woman in the Census Bureau as having written: "We call these colored Census Bureau employes 'Hoover Chocolates' and all wish we could make him eat them...
...sooner did Lady Mary hear that Lady Sophie had recovered from the fever, and was really about to resume the Cape Town-London flight, than she called for her latest and staunchest Moth, and hopped over the British channel. But she had no wish to flaunt a rivalry. Therefore, since her diamond-mining husband, Sir Abe, happened to be in South Africa, she announced that she was taking the most leisurely trip to visit him and that quite incidentally she would be the first woman to fly the London-Cape Town wastes...
...present one of the lively young chimpanzees which are bred especially for Dr. Voronoff's convenience in French West Africa by the Pasteur Institute. With thin sharp knives Surgeon Voronoff can slice from a chimpanzee glands which he then swiftly inserts in a human so unscrupulous as to wish to profit by the poor beast's loss...
...Gossip even says that Mrs. Coolidge does not go out at night now because she does not wish to accompany the President. The truth, however, is that Mrs. Coolidge's attack of grippe so weakened her that she is forced to be most careful and eschew night-time visiting...