Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bakersfield dance last week was something special: Bob Wills was celebrating his 30th anniversary as a cowboy fiddler. For the occasion, he played his 35th new tune, a fox trot called G.I. Wish ("G.I. . . . wish that I were free to roam, G.I. wish that I were home"). It had the same kind of whine, the same kind of maudlin lyrics that put his Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima and Smoke on the Water among the nation's top-selling folk records last year...
...marries a Baton Rouge stenographer who proves to be a strong prop of plantation life. There is Gervais' sister Cresside, a wild sprig who turns into a solid prop of the proprieties. There are, in fact, so many d'Alverys and other characters that some readers may wish that Novelist Keyes had supplied a dynastic chart and dramatis personae as meticulous as her map of Belle Heloise...
...Uncle Sam" (Twain) gave Webster a flying start by putting him in charge of the Kaolatype-a brand-new chalkplate process for engraving illustrations. "This invention," wrote Twain confidently, ". . . will utterly annihilate and sweep out of existence one of the minor industries of civilization. ... I wish to give you $100 of its stock, now, anyhow, & make you Vice President & Treasurer-also Manager. . . . Act fearlessly & with decision...
...Wish to God. . . ." Thereafter letters from Uncle Sam (who lived mostly in Elmira and Fredonia, N.Y.) to Nephew Charley (who scurried about New York City) followed at more or less daily intervals...
...good-will round of luncheons, receptions, military reviews and charitable visits. For Red Army heroes, Madame brought Chinese decorations and special Chinese candies. At a Red Army banquet, the Russians toasted her and the Generalissimo in Manchurian brandy. She responded with port wine and an earnest, delicately phrased Chinese wish...