Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drunk is he who from the floor Can rise again to drink once more: But drunk is he who prostrate lies And cannot cither drink or rise." I am also reminded of the definition of Dean Gulley of Wake Forest College Law School; that...
...that is to insert in capital accounts the actual legitimate cost of construction, limited to actual amount of money paid therefor. . . . This automatically dispenses with the proposition that there can be included in these capital accounts lump sum or percentage overheads, for engineering supervision, management, financing, development. Such items cannot and must not be included." One large drop of utility "water" was extracted by Solicitor Russell when, as a working example of what he meant, he struck $500.000 from the capital account of Cumberland River Power Co., a subsidiary of Samuel Insull's Middle West Utilities Co., now seeking...
Uncle Sham. Dr. Sunderland adds an appendix chapter roundly flaying, firmly negating Katherine Mayo's popular U. S. handbook of Indian dirtinesses and sexual shortcomings, Mother India.* But a Unitarian clergyman cannot meet Miss Mayo on her chosen ground. That has just been done by a scathing Lahore publicist, Kanhaya Lai Gauba. His book is Uncle Sham.† Without pausing to tilt over India with Miss Mayo he plunges straight into an exposé of U. S. dirtiness and shortcomings. Quoting chapter and verse from Herbert Hoover, Ben B. Lindsey, Bernarr Macfadden and many another, avenging Kanhaya Lai Gauba...
John Gilbert, cinemactor, honeymooning in Paris with his actress-wife, Ina Claire, said: "If I cannot get privacy in France, I will have to grow a beard and wear plus fours" [baggy knickerbockers...
Author of the winning text was Robert Collier, strenuous salesman, editor and staff of Mind, Inc., a monthly magazine of practical psychology. After winning the prize he admitted that he goes to church and while he cannot attend regularly "always manages to have some part of the family there...