Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish to give an Atheist's answer to the point of view presented by Msgr. Sheen in ... his broadcast [TIME...
...wish to call your attention to quite an error in your International Edition of Jan. 13 re cinema actress Lida Baarova, wife of Gustav Frohlich, in the famous Goebbels slapping incident. Your article states Frohlich has not been heard of since. He is not only alive, but just finished a picture in Berlin, which is at present playing in Theater Wien on Kurfurstendamm. ... I told Frohlich he was dead, but he would not believe me. . . . JOHN F. RENICH...
...store was almost empty. It had one dissatisfied customer, who tried hard in the dark to distinguish between silk and linen materials. She muttered: "Drat this! I thought we'd finished with blackouts." In Fortnum & Mason's flower department a girl clerk said crossly: "I wish people wouldn't be so goodhearted about it all ... then maybe something could be done...
...generally regarded it as a sissy game, like the one played by little girls & boys and called Rounders. When Babe Ruth tried his hand at cricket in a visit to England in 1935, he swatted the ball so hard that he broke the bat. He glowed: "I wish they would let me use a bat as wide as this in baseball...
Robert Neumann is one of those novelists who wish to leave the reader's complacency in tatters. At his best, he is brilliantly artful at it. His By the Waters of Babylon (TIME, July i, 1940) remains a classic work of fiction on the lives of European Jews. Children of Vienna, a much slighter story, is addressed, says Vienna-born Author Neumann, "to the men and women of the victorious countries"-especially to any who have failed to imagine life in the rubble "east of the Meridian of Despair...