Word: wishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sometimes wish all the newspaper men I come in contact with were as well trained ... as the newspaper men in Washington. I still feel I am sufficiently of a public character that I do not like to give exclusive interviews to one newspaper. . . . Sometimes it is hard to be courteous to newspaper men. When I am courteous and talk to them at all, they want to print everything I say. If I tell them I have nothing to say, they then take some other method of finding a story...
...wish, however, to have any misunderstanding of our actions and therefore we shall not lay these keels until there has been opportunity for a full consideration of their effect upon the final agreement for parity, although our hopes of relief from construction lie more largely in the latter years of the program...
...birthday party was held in his office in the Municipal Building. He arrived wearing a sky-blue necktie. Seven hundred people called to wish him well. Alfred Emanuel Smith dropped in. Commissioner Voorhis gave him a cigar marked "John R. Voorhis." To other guests went other presents: To the men, pencils, to the women, fans, all marked in gilt: "1829? JOHN R. VOORHIS?1929." There was a birthday cake, two poems, 100 roses from Pompton Plains. Commissioner Voorhis was elected a member of the young Democrats club. For the first time in his life he cried in public. Police Commissioner...
...mahogany at the White House really wish to get anywhere in their conference for law enforcement, let them remember what the beloved and immortal Sam Jones said: 'If you want to reform the world, begin on yourself and then you will have one rascal...
...Fiedler Sr. retired, took his family to Europe. Since he did not wish Arthur to follow music, the boy ran errands for a Berlin publisher. After five weeks, his head full of harmonics, he rebelled. Fiedler Sr., repentant, taught him the violin from that June into the following Fall. Then, out of 53 competitors he was accepted for one of three vacancies at the Berlin Royal Academy of Music. When War came he sailed for Boston, where the late Conductor Karl Muck hired him for the Boston Symphony. When the U. S. went to war, he went to camp...