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Word: wisht (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years Britons have adventured out to India and returned a-homing upon steamers bearing the triliteral device, "P. & O." Not the Bank of England is more symbolic of British fiscal solidarity than the chunky, workaday steam packets of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. "Gawd! I wisht I had a quid for every mile them 'P. & O.'s 'as steamed this year!" is an invocation not seldom heard along docks. Last week the incredible was revealed. The Directors of the P. & O. also wish that they had "a quid" (?1=$4.85) for every mile their ships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Worst Year | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

...which is why I mentian it last. It's uh peach, although I didn't know they hed uh Lard Anderson Bridge in lreland. I recognise thet ossifer in the boat with th' whistle. He's th' guy that bawled me out last time I wus in Cambridge. I wisht th' artist hed drawn his cars bigger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "IT'S UH PEACH", SAYS OTTO GROW OF NEW LAMPY | 3/23/1926 | See Source »

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