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Word: wishfulness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tallulah never made the slightest show of impatience. Her genuine respect for age is linked to her reverence for her parents, whose pictures are always on her dressing-room table. Last year she spent 20 minutes getting a long-distance call through to her gardener so that she could wish him a merry Christmas. Preposterously openhanded with money and gifts, she is also generous with her stage experience in helping other players...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: One-Woman Show | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...variegated one. Under a conviction that I shall not live to give its details to the younger branches of my family, I have concluded to put upon paper a few incidents that may perhaps afford entertainment and instruction to them when I am no more. It is my wish that it may not be read out of the circle of my family, and that it may never be published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What the Doctor Said | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...then later in September they played a full game in the Stadium. About that time, I was getting ready to kiss off the Provincetown blonde. There was no capacity crowd watching, them that particular day. Overhead, grey clouds turned black near the end of the first period. I wish I could tell you more about how they kept on playing for three more periods when electric lights were going out in Boston. But then I'd have to tell you how Bill Henry, a guy who kept statistics at last year's Yale game, showed the stuff that made...

Author: By Samuel Spade, | Title: Crimson, After Victory and Defeat, Is Finally a Team | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

...Thanks for the privilege of selecting winner of Harvard-Yale game. Unfortunately, I am worse selector of football games than Jim Corbet was of boxing matches. I wish I knew which team will win, then I could make one of the coaches a great deal happier during the week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hub, N. Y. Scribes Call Crimson Win | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

Dean Korby-Miller west on to say that there have been complaints as to the conduct of examinations at Radcliffe. "Girls who did not wish to come and go as the honor system allows, and go as the honor system allows, and who wanted every moment for concentration, have felt there was undue distraction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Dean Kerby-Miller, Joan Braverman Discuss Joint Exams | 11/19/1948 | See Source »

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