Word: couldn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hazing is going out of fashion everywhere, and here in Cambridge no one theoretically knows a man of '41 from a Senior, but back in 1737 every one could tell a Freshman--because he couldn't wear a hat. In later days, the rule was slackened a little, and if the first year man in question had to go out in a blizzard, he sometimes risked just a cap--and usually got away with...
...music swelled and filled the small room with a throbbing harmony. Slick Jones stood there, mouth agape, until he couldn't stand it any longer. He slipped out the door, and in a moment returned with his snare drum and cymbals. He got to work immediately, grinning from ear to ear. He is famed for wearing out a drum-skin once a week, and wearing out a pair of sticks every performance...
...wife Ina (Loretta Young) took her to lunch to find out if she did. Deciding that her answer must be yes, Steve walked out. "If I stay," she told the doctor, "I'll lose my sense of humor, the whole thing will end in a mess." The doctor couldn't work without her and became so snappish Ina decided he loved Steve, started for Reno. When, having changed her mind at the airport, she came back and found him drunk in Steve's apartment, Ina throws completely over all the opportunities which actresses have heretofore reaped from...
...satire on the national bestseller of the moment, Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, Irving Tressler's How to Lose Friends and Alienate People had nothing up its sleeve to match its name or its blurb: "What I think of Irving D. Tressler couldn't be printed in anything but Braille-and then it would be too hot to touch. ... It is the only book which is today offsetting the 20-year drive by American advertisers to make everyone in this country popular with everyone else...
...last week, so General Kazuki, now reinforced, moved south against them. Whereupon Japanese soldiers promptly found themselves out of the mud but in the water. Torrential rains and dikes blasted by Chinese flooded miles of countryside, waist deep. Japanese planes could bomb Machang almost at will, but Japanese soldiers couldn't get near...