Word: aught
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There was no thought of orb or crown When the single, wooden chest went down To the steering-flat, and the careless gunroom hailed him To learn by ancient and bitter use, How neither favour nor excuse, Nor aught save his sheer self henceforth availed...
...turned bandit in his youth and became dictator in his manhood. A frank realist, he never hesitated to kill when it was necessary. He was pleased that the people said of him: "He is a man of business." His principle: "If in doubt, kill! Nor fear that you waste aught of value." His aim was to govern well; when he found that modernization went against the country's grain he benevolently preserved the status quo. He permitted the kind of free press that Mussolini enjoys. When a newspaper offended him he confiscated its owners' property, paid...
...conclusions to be drawn, and the Church's legal counsel, albeit unwittingly, draws them both in his voluble indignation. First an incredulous gallery is asked to believe that the Church authorities, through the period of Mr. Solomon's most brazen publicity, were solemnly unaware that the Cotton Club was aught but "an athletic and social organization." Amelia Sedley would have crossed her fingers at this, but when the counsel brightly interpolates that the Church, although a Boston incorporation, did not even know who was occupying their property, one suddenly feels that all bounds have been passed...
...wife, but who married her before the airplane fell. She pities him, and all her love is for his virile brother. She shows the innocence and lack of premeditation of her passion by conceiving a child; but before the crippled husband--far too crippled to be a father--finds aught amiss, he awakes one morning, dead. Everything would have been all right had not the perspicacious nurse discovered that an overdose of sleeping powders had killed him. This Nurse Wayland had loved the handsome cripple in her own starved, soulful way. She accuses the adulterous wife, but lives...
...author perchance pick his 'young ladies' in a bawdy house? . . . Caricature. . . . Unsullied reputation of our Creole maidens. . . . Nauseating. . . . Filthiness. ... A monstrous slander of the purest womanhood to be found in the U. S. . . . Slimy animalism and mental filth. . . . The author might be a handsome young man for aught we know. The skunk also is a beautiful animal...