Word: wishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wish you would have your type-founders get you up a lower-case "&." It would ease the pain of many of us old-time printers, and decidedly improve the appearance of the couplet. The Spanish use of "y" as in "Gomez y Soto" to indicate the paternal and maternal names of an individual gives a much better appearance than would the use of a capital...
...wish to be misinterpreted as believing that the United States is free-for-all and devil-take-the-hindmost. . . . It is no system of laissez faire...
...Nationalist Foreign Minister C. T. Wang said: "We have sent identic notes to all the powers concerned asking them to move to abolish extraterritoriality as soon as possible. I am unable to divulge the text of the note, but wish it made clear that China is urgently desirous of early assumption of her sovereign rights in all parts of the country...
Fashions are funny things. This year it is the rage to wear light tan sport coats. Personally we wish someone would undertake to get the boys out of the trench coats by Christmas...
...secret to my admirers that I intend to enter the field myself some time. But more of that later. I don't wish to detract interest from Hoover and Smith in the present campaign. I'll just let a little more information leak out about the election...