Word: couldn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There should be a chapter on Anger. Repressed rage is one of man's grandest endowments, and I wouldn't give a straw for a man who couldn't on occasion bite a crowbar in two in pure dancing fury. But-don't do it; you simply spoil the crowbar or break a tooth...
...like my uncle. He was the best man who ever lived. He always was helping somebody else. One time he found out that the young feller who tended bar at the saloon where he got his drinks was going to lose his job because he couldn't mix 'em right. Well, my uncle went down there one morning and put his foot on the brass rail and he said: 'Son, I'm agoing to stay here until you learn how to mix these drinks...
...night and I got pretty sleepy. I took off all my clothes but my drawers and-well-I had to go. Well, I went out in the back yard to go but there wasn't no path leadin' to the place I wanted to go and I couldn't see no little house. Well, I got turned around then and I couldn't tell which was my house so I started walkin' because I was cold." After explaining city ways to Heckter, the police took him home...
...leader in his highly hazardous profession at 32, Lee Gehlbach became an aeronautical engineer because he was "a farmer's son who couldn't get used to getting up at 4 in the morning." Graduated from the University of Illinois in 1924, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps, resigned five years later to become a free-lance pilot and consultant. Best known as a racing pilot, he won first place and $15,000 in the 5,541-mi. All-America Flying Derby of 1930, beating such famed speed merchants as the late Lowell Bayles and Jimmy Wedell...
Until a big black buck demanded the truck, the Metropolitan's new manager answered questions with simple charm. He had seen the papers in the train that morning, seen "Johnson" in the headlines and "honestly I couldn't realize that the stories were about me and not about the General or Jack or maybe Pussyfoot...