Word: wishful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...both your houses." Was this double-damnation his own feeling? The President declined to affirm or deny. It was what he thought the public thought. Since good politicians model their opinions after the public's, it was fair to deduce that Franklin Roosevelt was at least beginning to wish a plague on ''both houses...
...know that my mother would confirm the fact that it was her wish that the funeral should take place on that day and that the King would agree that opposition to the proposal was confined to Sir Gerald Wollaston...
...distress has been caused to the Duke, I greatly regret it," winced the Garter King of Arms, when confronted by newshawks. "I recollect that the Duke [when King] did say something to the effect that it was his mother's wish that the funeral should be concluded in a week to avoid prolonged distress to the Royal Family. ... I meant no sort of disrespect to the Duke of Windsor...
Exploded Steelman Purnell: "What right has the Governor to send troops in to prevent men from working? The Governor's job is to protect men who wish to work. . . . It's gotten so now that a man can't work in this country when he wants...
...great failure in the last four or five years has been that our hearts have failed us. The dictators of Europe are very clever men, daring men, astute men. They are taking, at the present moment, a rather low view of the intelligence and courage of ourselves. I wish to God I could...