Word: wishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...program will continue for all who wish to remain until the election is decided. Doughnuts and cider will be served at 12 o'clock from a table across the end of the room...
...your letter page of a scurrilous anti-Catholic campaign verse, directly under a letter from a Catholic Sister who cancels her subscription in protest against your original printing of this doggerel. If the Presidency of the United States were being contested by a Buddhist and a Mohammedan, I should wish TIME to print no shocking, versified allusion to the sacred "Beard of the Prophet...
...play is partly preachment but it is so exciting that even Otto Kahn, you may be certain, would wish to set his teeth in the ear of the suave, knavish judge and in that of the dirty district attorney. The minor parts are badly taken; but Charles Bickford, as the flaring Macready, Horace Braham, as the less truculent, beseeching Capraro, and Sylvia Sidney, as the well-gowned and eventually hysterical fiancee of the former make you, as one shrill memuer of the audience remarked, wish to "go to Boston and kill a few people...
...girl, Gert, and a boy, Ed. Ed, who earned $20 a week, married Gert. On his wedding night, he discovered that he had a weak heart and would soon die. The idea of suicide came to him like an inspiration or the thought of a journey. Gert did not wish to live any longer either; so Ed closed the window and opened...
Four years ago the Democratic candidate for the presidency received only 136 electoral votes. Eight years ago he received 127 votes. If the Republicans wish to defeat Smith so that he will stay defeated, they will have to leave him fewer votes this year than were obtained by either Davis in 1924 or Cox in 1920. Otherwise he is likely to turn up four years hence stronger than ever. Smith as a presidential candidate is often compared to Andrew Jackson. Old Hickory was beaten the first time he ran but lived to be twice victorious. If Smith runs much ahead...