Word: wishful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been the "Sacred Flower" for more than 1,000 years. No Japanese except royalty may use the full or 16-petal chrysanthemum device, but with fewer petals the chrysanthemum figures in countless Japanese designs, supposedly lucky. In Italy, however, to present a living man with a chrysanthemum is to wish him bad luck, for chrysanthemums are considered ideal flowers for graves...
...candidate for the State Senate and my probable opponent in the finals rode into office with Roosevelt. I wish to be able to describe him correctly...
...tender spots in book-publishing, bookselling and book-page-editing. With its sales-figures reports from bookstores, TIME can manage the cold truth, though not weekly. Newspaper book-pages must rely on impressions served up as facts by worried booksellers who, only human, may sometimes let the wish father the thought. Might not TIME at its convenience poll a) book-publishers, b) booksellers, c) book-editors to ascertain whether they do not, like Pearl Buck, regard this best-seller business as half nuisance and half outright thimbleriggery...
...have a perfect right to choose any candidate you wish. I do not seek to impair that right-but because Georgia has been good enough to call me her adopted son . . . I feel no hesitation in telling you what I would do if I could vote here next month...
...wish to congratulate you on your scoop over New Mexico newspapers; none having yet learned of Carrie Tingley's demise nor tardiness...