Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish to object to the Crimson's portrayal of the barber shop price situation. May I point out that only one of the Harvard Square barbers opposed the raise in prices. In answer to the Crimson's vivid prediction of students rushing across the river to Boston for haircuts, I wish to point out that the meeting of the Harvard Square barbers was just one local chapter meeting of a large national organization, and that price rises could be expected throughout Greater Boston and the rest of the country, in keeping with the trend of the times...
...word. ... If my services are needed in the shipyards, on the assembly line, then I say, swell. Give us a program, and we'll live up to it. We'll go through with it without a whimper. But until that time comes, under unified direction, I wish they'd quit yelling at us. We're all worn out, and we haven't done a thing...
...guesthouse for sailors on leave. The Navy announced that the chosen sailors "lounge on luxurious chairs, eat off an old Italian table brought from a monastery, walk on Oriental rugs, store their clothes in huge old French armoires. ... A butler, cook, housekeeper and other servants cater to every wish. . . . Meals are served at every hour...
...pocketbook nerve. The Louisville City Council plans to place all church-owned real estate used for business purposes on the tax rolls. Several million dollars' worth of property, owned mostly by Baptists and Roman Catholics, will be affected. The owners will have to go to court if they wish to protest the assessments...
...Lynn Fontanne, it sold over 200,000 copies in the U.S., 100,000 in England. Its loose-rhythmed, nearly conversational verse was intended to say "all the truth I could about England." She concluded: ". . . In a world where England is finished and dead, I do not wish to live...