Word: wisher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...KING WHO WAS A KING-H. G. Wells-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). To Herbert George Wells, as to many another social idealist, man's future means a great deal. But Wells is prophet as well as wisher. Years ago, so he claims, he took a joyride in an aeroplane and prophesied Lindbergh. "This book" he declares, with some slight inaccuracy, "is the same sort of thing. . . . Can form, story and music be brought together to present the conditions and issues of the abolition of war in a beautiful, vigorous and moving work of art, which will be well within...
Hague supporters rioted jubilantly in the streets. The Reform headquarters were raided and wrecked. The morning after election Burkitt called to congratulate a Hague police captain at his station. Leaping to his feet, the officer met his well-wisher with "Now you lousy faker, get to hell out of here." Thereupon the "Jeffersonian Democrat" was shunted into the street, to be cursed and stoned by a Hague crowd...
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...
...ancient well-wisher of the CRIMSON would like to attribute this neglect rather to excess of enthusiasm and lack of thought, than to any deliberate attempt to confuse and mislead your readers. Perhaps it is not yet too late to rectify your omission. I trust that this letter, at least, may find a place in your paper. Very sincerely yours, Garrett Mattingly...
...contrast in the general condition and attitude of the two sets of players, one of the most striking and even tragic contrasts I have seen in the forty-five years of following football contests, and I speak as an old football player myself and a lover and well-wisher of the game. What the reason was will have to be left to the higher powers. Whether overtraining the result of the long series of hot days, or what not, but the fact was this that on the Harvard side we saw a group of healthy, powerful and vigorous young...