Word: wishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world's one supremely courageous enemy of democracy. He enlarged upon his thesis crisply and smashingly, thus: "All existing electoral systems neglect the reality of life which is that, isolated, individuals do not exist or have negligible value. Society is not merely a conglomeration of men. . . . Fascismo wishes to create a regime of authority with a strong Government possessing ample powers but founded on the masses and keeping close to the masses. . . . All who have Fascismo at heart wish to create a regime whose ruling class can always draw from the people the men necessary to its constant renewal...
Clearly flushed with hopes and expectations, Prince Carol talked with blazing indiscretion to correspondents while he smoked innumerable cigarets. Said he: "I wish to qualify a statement recently made by one of my aides that I will be upon the Rumanian throne in two months. That was merely his personal opinion. It may be two months or it may be two years...
...University regulation The days when pistols were fired up chimneys, when statues were painted, when free speech was exercised, are now no more, thanks to the hearty co-operation of the Lampoon and to a less degree of the CRIMSON. We of this office are only human and sometimes wish that someone would play with a fire extinguisher or do something spectacular in order that ancient and long-standing statues might be put to use. We have hoped in vain, and in fear of premature age through inactivity I have resigned...
...Birmingham show, last week, the King-Emperor inspected carefully a display of "electric fires." It was then that he complained of smoke, in Buckingham Palace. Turning to the Queen, whom he calls "May" (short for Mary), he said: "I really wish that I had one of these electric thingumbobs in my room...
...work. This will be particularly true in the case of men who put off registering until late in May or June. For this reason, the office urges all men desiring such jobs to register on or before March 15, and then keep in close touch with it, if they wish to secure desirable positions. These registrations may be effected at any time between 9 and 5 o'clock daily...