Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...light of the record, were Negro citizens "thoughtful" in the same way as Southerners, they might wish they could spend the next few eternities where there weren't any Southerners...
...table to apologize. The Russian officer cut him short: 'It's you Germans who are the cause of all this. Get away from here.' Lieut. Pablov then walked over to the American captain, said in perfect English, 'Don't worry about it, I wish I were back home myself.' Pablov offered his hand. The American captain took it, turned back to his bottle. Red-faced, the German manager retreated to the kitchen...
Added Wikborg fervently: "We wish to put into action the brotherhood of man. . . . Our platform is really the Bible...
Next to becoming a cartoonist, he al ways wanted most to be a clown. When he was grown and married, he got his wish. He made several tours with Ringling Bros., one with his wife and the late cartoonist Clare Briggs. (Even now, when the circus comes to Bridgeport, the Websters dress up and ride in the parade.) Ethel Webster became a good enough bareback rider to receive, and reluctantly turn down, a professional offer. She is also pretty certainly the only non-professional woman ever to ride down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue on the nape of an elephant...
...nicknamed him "my sweet Robin" and "my two eyes" (later, she dubbed Sir Walter Raleigh "my two Lydds"), and later, when her advisers began to press her to marry a foreign prince, she would point to Robert Dudley and exclaim that there was the only man she would wish to marry-"not one who would sit at home all day among the cinders." When he took part in public games, she dressed up as a serving maid and hid in the crowd to watch him, and she was delighted when he impudently snatched her handkerchief and mopped his brow with...