Word: wishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wish you would make it clear in your paper that the John H. Hammond Jr. referred to is not John H. Hammond Jr., the well known scientist...
Chinese Minister to the U. S. received an honorary degree from Lafayette College-that may be so, but he is not the only one. Charles Henry Breed, Headmaster of Blair Academy, Blairstown, N. J. and many another, also received an honorary degree from the same place, and I wish you would correct your omission in the near future...
...Austen Chamberlain finally noticed the Labor-Liberal clamor by announcing to the House of Commons that, "in deference to the strongly expressed wish of Captain Delafons himself, His Majesty's Ambassador at Rome has authorized the Italian authorities not to prosecute the assailants, who made a strong plea for mercy...
...father in the electric chair. After a bank robbery and a narrow escape, she persuades her young pal (Richard Arlen) to give up the gun game, marry her, take her away to a little home in California. There she is as loving a wife as any man could wish. But her husband grows restless; he cannot be happy for long unless he has a gun in his hand. He goes back into the racket; and she, loyal but violently protesting, goes with him. And finally . . . no, that would be telling too much. Ladies of the Mob is excellent entertainment...
Edward Sanford Martin, 72, retired as chief editorial writer' for Life. He wrote Life's very first editorial in 1883, saying: "We wish to have some fun in this paper and to have it as nearly of the right sort as may be." Since then Mr. Martin has written nearly every editorial that appeared in Life. His last words were: "And another thing! When you are out in the shopping district, do you sometimes get a disagreeable sensation of everything being for sale? Well, this present world is rather too much that way. Maybe that...