Word: wish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cryptic Sirs: ...Finally I wish that you would explain the meaning of the rather cryptic ANNOUNCEMENT which now seems to appear on your letter page each week. Does this mean that you have moved your editorial department away from Cleveland? I surely hope not.... Louise Barker Mrs. B. Barker) Cleveland, Ohio...
Five weeks ago (TIME, July 11) Charles Augustus Lindbergh wished to pay an informal call on Daytonian Orville Wright, pioneer aviator. This wish he satisfied by driving a motor car through back streets of Dayton, by visiting with Orville Wright, by driving away through back streets of Dayton...
...living with Charles Spencer Chaplin as strong-armed, sympathetic major domo. But these circus addenda to the Tully autobiography (Beggars of Life, 1924) return to a milieu wholly comfortable for Mr. Tully, where he can exercise his storytelling ability with no private emotion more complicating than a half-hearted wish to trade his literary life for the disheveled simplicity of a circus once more...
...codicil of King Ferdinand concluded: "I cannot close without remembering with all my heart my dear son Carol, for whom I wish a happy time in the new life which he has chosen against our wishes. ... I demand that he shall not return until all the constitutional authorities allow...
...correspondent from whom Mr. Lewis did not stalk away was Dorothy Thompson, curt, mannish, foreign servant of the New York Evening Post. They talked about the Vienna disturbance. "I wish I could see it," said Novelist Lewis, absently...