Word: intented
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...whom conformity at times could take on the contours of self-surrender. Gilbert domineered; Sullivan insinuated himself.'' And yet, in their repeated quarrels, it was Gilbert who made the first overtures of reconciliation, it was Gilbert who conceded everything, agreed to Sullivan's wishes, then blandly pursued his original intent. William Schwenck Gilbert was early initiated to drama. At two, he was kidnaped by Italian brigands?his parents were visiting Naples?and redeemed for £25, a sound investment. At 15, he ran away from school to be an actor, but he was sent back to his Aristophanes and Virgil...
...sharp rattle of handclaps and a booming salute of "hoch! hoch! HOCH!" greeted Prince August Wilhelm, fourth son of Wilhelm II, last week, when he entered a Berlin auditorium into which 5,000 rabid Monarchists had jammed with intent to demonstrate...
...ground that the more solemn a thing is the more unreal it is; 2) Some people object on the ground that the more solemn a thing is the more binding it is-the more it may commit the U. S. to an international course beyond the present intent...
Original and romantic intent was to run 1451 miles-up and across Kansas, south through high Oklahoma and higher Texas, across the Rio Grande, then southwest across Mexico, 1,451 miles to the Gulf of California. The line from Kansas City to Wichita, Kan. is still "under construction." From Wichita one can ride 735 miles to Alpine, Texas, without changing cars-on a local train...
...Richard Burden Haldane, first Viscount of Cloan, had died in 1913, a grateful Britain would have remembered him as a capable War Minister intent on army reorganization, as Lord High Chancellor and a Parliamentarian for 26 years...