Word: wishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...JAMES BECK wish to make immediate PURCHASE HOUSE in MAYFAIR; lease 10 to 15 years; nine to 11 bed rooms required.?Telephone Paddington...
...diary, under date of July 6: "Lloyd George and Lord Curzon* are fine representatives. Impudence and dignity are attributed to them by some foreign critics. But the impudence is so extraordinarily quick and intelligent and decided, the dignity so grand in manner and so imposing, that no country could wish for anything better in the way of representatives. . . . Curzon was born grandiloquent. . . . His unique achievement was to combine dignity with humor...
...Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and Prince George, younger sons and still resident at Buckingham Palace, ask their mother's permission if they wish to sleep later on any given morning than 8 o'clock, the family rising hour; 4) Even the four privileged reporters are not permitted to telephone from the palace, nor may they leave by the main door. However great the news emergency, they must duck out through a subterranean passageway, then sprint for private houses in the neighborhood, where they have arranged to use the telephone, day or night...
...Ingersoll Lectureship was established in 1894 by Miss Caroline Haskell Ingersoll, who left funds for the establishment of an annual lecture on the subject of the Immortality of Man. The lectureship is awarded by the Corporation in accordance with the express wish of the donor that it should not be made a part of the regular curriculum offered by the University, and should not be delivered by any professor or tutor in his usual routine of instruction. The choice of the lecturer is not limited to any one religious denomination or to any profession...
...shares of Neighbors Ltd.," said Viscount Ennismore last week, "will be sold at a penny each to wealthy men who wish to show the sincerity of their Socialism, and remove the obstacles of their capital, earned or unearned. Each purchaser of a penny share binds himself to contribute ?100 [$486] to the company's Permanent Fund. The sole business of Neighbors Ltd. will be to administer the Fund in the interest of Social Service...