Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should make attempt at repeal the Volstead Act in 1928. So far as can be learned no specific mention was made as to the use of these funds. It is not vitally needed for propaganda; the Anti-Saloon League profits by an immense amount of free publicity. It cannot be used for enforcement; the United States Treasury takes care of that. Pretty certainly it will not be used for the victims of alcohol poisoning. A conspiracy deriving two thirds of its support from "empty bottles, and bums" is needless to say not a vital danger...
Ever since the Princeton debacle and the fact twitting comparison of a Boston debutante dance to the auction block, the arrival of a new issue of the Lampoon has been awaited nervously by an those who live in glass houses. People cannot seem to stand having fun poked at them. And now there's more bits of intra-mural irreverence in the January number which cannot but cause offense to members of the Harvard faculty...
...Comrades, I cannot imagine that there is in the whole world a woman capable of refusing to dance with a Turkish officer. Your profession is the most glorious and the most honorable. The whole country counts on you. So, I repeat, I cannot imagine that there is a woman capable of refusing to dance with a Turkish officer. Now I order them to dance. Go on the floor. Dance...
...strong, virile sentiment." So announced Professor Pietro Fedele, Italian Minister of Education, who last fortnight weeded out many a college professor and high school teacher possessed of un-Fascist sentiments. Elucidation: "Observation has demonstrated that women lack enthusiasm for philosophy, which they always seek to tincture with religion. They cannot write, and history they subject to sympathies or antipathies." In future women will teach Rico, Tito and Beppo only sciences, languages, and philological subjects...
...ladies and gentlemen, Vermont has as good mountains as any other state. So when the President of this country, Calvin Coolidge, cannot find a mountain in Vermont good enough to bear his name, I scruple at his right to continue as manager of the only silent spokesman, official or otherwise, ever heretofore allowed to parade the White House Grounds...