Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Darlan: "I, for the present time, have no statement to make on the subject, but I eagerly wish that all Frenchmen who wish to fight the Axis will do it in close union...
...Eagerly Wish." To A.P.'s Correspondent Wes Gallagher, Darlan issued a supplementary statement. Gallagher had put his questions in writing...
...When Dali was very young his mother continually asked him: "Sweetheart, what do you wish? Sweetheart, what do you want?" Among the things young Salvador wanted and got were a king's ermine cape, a gold scepter and a crown. Dressed in these, young Dali would stare at himself in the mirror. Says he: "Then I pushed my sexual parts back out of sight . . . so as to look as much as possible like a girl." At school Salvador was the only child to be brought "hot milk and cocoa . . . in a magnificent thermos bottle wrapped in a cloth embroidered...
...they wish to write more than 200 words, they can send their dispatches by the even more uncertain courier planes that, since the invasion (Nov. 7-8) shuttle back & forth between Algiers and England...
Many books published today get read most widely in digested magazine form.* This month readers were discovering a new wrinkle in literary digestion. The Book-of-the-Month Club announced a new literary short cut for those who wish to read books, but not whole books. Through King Features Syndicate, the Club will release its best-sellers in the form of cartoon strips: 24-30 cartooned installments per novel, with 500 words of text under each strip (about one-fifteenth of the published novel). The first cartoonovel is Anna Segher's The Seventh Cross, story of an escape from...