Word: couldn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carlisle is quoted: "If you . . . will play, the best thing I can wish you is, that you may win and never throw crabs." In 1801, when young Marigny was sowing his wild oats in London Town, The Sporting Magazine printed: "Dreamt that I had thrown crabs all night and couldn't nick a seven...
...TIME, Feb. 27 you have an article on the dog show of the Westminster Kennel Club and under the picture of the best dog the cap tion, "Mr. Thomas couldn't touch the devil." In fairness to the breed of Doberman Pinschers . . . I would like to state a few reasons why Mr. Thomas couldn't touch Ferry...
...last year she got married. The costs of starting a new home were tremendous and Jenny needed every cent she could get her hands on. But she was unable to touch the money which had been stored up in her. Annuity unless she left Harvard's employ and she couldn't afford to lose her job. The $50 in her Annuity were a frozen asset and she and her husband "just had to do without...
...knowing how he stood there but suddenly he was aroused from his hypnosis by a clangorous blast of shrill, female voices. He glanced in the direction of the tumult and instinctively braced himself at what he saw. There, headed by a stern, prim, capable-looking teacher (she couldn't have been anything else but a teacher), was a horde of adolescent females sweeping down...
This enlightening conversation was being conducted between the young the young lady on Vag's left and her robust little confidante on Vag's right. Vag was wet, he couldn't see, and now he couldn't even hear. He knew that if he didn't leave immediately, he would lose all control and commit the heinous offense of bashing together two female heads. Muttering insincere apologies, the Vagabond clambered over legs and seats and splashed his way to the nearest subway entrance...