Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the wet views of Alfred Emanuel Smith, Premier L. A. Taschereau, of Quebec, is in accord. Said the Quebec Premier last week: "I cannot make any actual comment upon any of the planks of the platform advocated by either Mr. Smith or Mr. Hoover. However, I might say that I am not altogether insensible to the reference made by the Democratic candidate to the liquor question. When some of my friends in the opposition in the Legislature offered some bitter criticism at the time the Government introduced the Quebec Liquor Act, I replied that before very long our liquor...
...Italian sings like a bird in order to live himself out, he paints because he has to, he writes poetry or commits murder because he cannot help it. Finally he embraces Fascism, dazzled by its deification of heroism, and this principle is the highest by which nations can live...
Thomas Edison who is very hard of hearing, once declared that in 100 years all people would be deaf. Of course he was exaggerating. Yet it is certain that hearing defects have been increasing. In England one-third of the population, it is estimated, cannot hear perfectly. Doctors are investigating. One important cause that they blame is city noises. The cacophony injures the auditory nerves, the brain, the whole nervous system...
...Hank. Third coincidence: with Geste's life at stake, Otis had promised to marry a half-caste dancing girl. Honor-bound to keep his loathful promise, he is on the verge of marriage when he discovers her to be his half-sister. With such luck the end cannot but be happy-and the surviving Geste still survives...
...condition, and that I will hang, burn, waste, boil, flay, strangle, and bury alive these infamous heretics, rip up the stomachs and wombs of their women, and crush their infants' heads against the walls in order to annihilate their execrable race. That when the same cannot be done openly I will secretly use the poisonous cup, the strangulating cord, the steel of the poniard, regardless of the honor, rank, dignity or authority of the persons ... at any time I may be directed to do so by the agents of the Pope...