Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Quoted from Thomas Jefferson: "To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. ... As the doctrine is that a public debt is a public blessing, so they think a perpetual one is a perpetual blessing, and therefore wish to make it so large that we can never...
Ireland, though he has no wish to live in it-"I am not one of those sentimental Irishmen who love leprechauns and hobs" -is the country Carroll will go on writing about. The U. S., where at present he is visiting, he would not live in either, but its theatre is the one in the world that excites him. Scotland, though dramatically a cipher, is the place to live -because "its people leave you alone." England, full of "those gentle barbarians so much more dangerous than bloody barbarians," he despises...
...laugh lines that stud the production. At times the two principals have such fun themselves that they have to take time out to laugh at their jokes. Mildred Natwick is secondary on the comedy end of the musical only because she has a minor part, but she makes one wish that she were more prominent. One of the best lines in the show is spoken by Durante as he discovers two fond lovers in embrace on the set, "Casual weather we're having...
...become Governor of Wisconsin, he said he wanted to become the State's general manager, to run it better. When Phil La Follette cried out against his "money bags," Candidate Heil replied typically: "Sure I'm a rich man. And I bet you wish you had more vultures like me who employ men and provide jobs...
...Near Düsseldorf, in the Rhineland, it was revealed that German laborers had been asked at a Yuletide Labor Front celebration to write on a slip of paper their answer to the question: "What wish would you like to have fulfilled during 1939?" Six slips read: "A new government!" The rebellious laborers were discovered, sent to a concentration camp...