Word: wishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Best minds have often contended that Egypt ought not to have a Magna Carta. For example, Citizen Theodore Roosevelt, speaking at London in 1910, warmed the cockles of British hearts by shouting: "If you feel that you have no right to be in Egypt, if you do not wish to establish and keep order there, why, then, by all means get out of Egypt! . . . Some nation must govern Egypt. . . . I hope and believe that you will decide that it is your duty to be that nation!" Citizen Roosevelt had just topped off his famed African hunting expedition with an Egyptian...
Sweden welcomes its new citizens," said Prince Karl. "The Swedish nation recognizes your hopeless situation and sincerely appreciates your burning wish to return to the mother country. But Sweden expects that its new citizens will work willingly, for without work Sweden's earth will not give good results...
...reputation and $15,000 in cash prizes. With the single exception of World's Champion Dr. Alexandre Alekhine, all the international Masters were entered. Dr. Alekhine was a spectator; did not play because next month he has a world's championship match with E. D. Bogoljubow and did not wish to exert himself too strenuously. Challenger Bogoljubow, however, had no such inhibition...
Dutifully the five sons of the late Arthur Cromwell, New York farmer, filed into a Manhattan hospital last week and had their tonsils removed. Thus they carried out his deathbed wish. He died from an infection, cf which severe tonsillitis was the first recognizable stage...
...British gesture by announcing that the U. S. would postpone construction of three cruisers (see p. 12). Throughout Britain these quick-stepping developments met with such widespread enthusiasm that even the Conservative Daily Telegraph observed: "All parties must hope that Mr. MacDonald's optimism is justified and wish him well in his further negotiations." Key points in the MacDonald speech: Parity: The Prime Minister said that he and General Dawes "have agreed upon the principle of parity"-that is to say when the U. S. and British fleets have been scaled down they must be of equal strength...