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Word: wishful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When questioned on the appearance of the opposing team, a Lampoon official declared: "Haven't you seen newspaper women? I only wish they were on a magazine instead...

Author: By A STAFF Reporter, | Title: Hint Lampy Linked With Publicity Gag | 2/12/1938 | See Source »

...editorial hastens to assert its admiration of the College as a whole, however, terming it "the best college we've ever been to, and we don't wish we were anywhere else. While we're here enjoying it . . . as individual students, as a newspaper, we'll be chiefly interested in what's wrong with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth Undergraduate Daily Blasts Boring Courses, Mossgrown Cut System | 2/11/1938 | See Source »

With equal gallantry, Jimmy Powers acknowledged the apology: "I have always had a deep respect for Dan. And I wish to thank him for his magnanimous and wholly unsolicited retraction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Retraction | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...temperament (a mental breakdown hastened his death at 46), MacDowell loved the country, drew inspiration and titles for his music from nature. Eventually he bought himself a strip of wooded land near Peterboro in southern New Hampshire, where he spent his last years. Before he died he expressed a wish that this country refuge might be made available to other composers, paint-ters, writers who were anxious to work in country quiet. But the realization of his wish required more money than Idealist MacDowell had saved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: MacDowell Colony | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...terrible picture of bride & groom rushing about getting ready for the wedding, buying things, getting nervous and exhausted and then having to start on a trip. "Where is the ecstasy?" she asks gloomily. "Where the bliss?" She also thinks that no bride should ever be heard saying, "I wish you'd hurry up and make more money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

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