Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Place of Death. The old men said: "It was our wish that the grave should never be found, but why should we remain silent now?" They told how Lobengula fled only when the battle was clearly lost. By his order, his tribesmen did not follow, lest their spoor disclose the king's whereabouts to the white man. When Lobengula learned that his people had surrendered, he built a great fire and threw upon it the leather ring of his authority, his girdles, his sporran of blue monkey skin. Then he said to the chosen few who were with...
...which have made The New Yorker's George Price one of the most popular of U.S. comic artists. One industrious hobby ist is shown completing a parlor-sized steam engine right in the parlor it is sized to fit. His wife wanly observes: "Some times I even wish he'd get interested in another woman." Another character, the father of a crowded and bewildered family, is at last able to explain to them the curio which has long adorned their mantelpiece - "Professor Caswell tells me this damn thing happens to be a Ubangi symbol of fertility." Another woebegone...
...HARVARD SERVICE NEWS will open up its building and beer closet on Plympton Street Wednesday at 7:30 o'clock to all University students who wish to try out for the mid-term competition...
Very, very occasionally, Breneman lays an egg. Once he presented a wishing ring (a daily broadcast feature) to a "lucky number" winner in the audience, with the request that she make an immediate and personal wish. Said the woman "I want babies, twin babies!" Breneman choked, reddened, could say nothing. "Well," snapped his supposed victim, "what are you going to do about...
Cursing. "I hope you fall out of the window, you blankety-blank stinky old bitch." This bad wish was expressed by a three-year-old in the wartime nursery school set up by Connecticut's St. Joseph College, in downtown Hartford. The vexed urchin's pretty teacher was not at all shocked: but being a nursery-school teacher, she carefully wrote down every word. In the newly streamlined November Progressive Education, she suggests how to handle such tough-talking cherubs...