Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...visitors Norah said: "I wish to make no secret of the fact I'm single." Her bustling mother said: "We would rather be honest about it." Heanor's town council opened a subscription for the babies, itself led the donations with ?25. To Norah at that moment, life had never seemed so exciting. Even the local cinema sent a gift: "Flicker tickets for life...
...Universal Press Service Correspondent Effie Alley, wrote to an old friend who writes to him from Kansas about her visits to his 82-year-old mother in Abilene: ". . . Next time you call on my Mother, tell her I am well and miss her all the time. I only wish that planes flew fast enough that I could spend one day with her and be back here the following day for work. I would go A.W.O.L. that long...
...wish for you and for your son all success in your common task of overcoming his injury; and overcome it you can if you refuse to be defeated. He was not afraid when he gave his eyes for his country. You must never let him be afraid while he is getting his vision back through other faculties...
This brought Illinois' stocky Republican Representative Calvin D. Johnson hopping to his feet. Said he solemnly: "I wish there were more men in American industry like...
...wounded go walking by. . . . Some have bloodless faces, some bloody faces, others only pieces of faces. . . . I wish it could be seen by the silken-voiced, radio-announcing pollyannas back home...