Word: couldn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...simple skeleton is built into a fine novel by Miss Suckow's rich direct, and maturely sympathetic style. Her prose is at times radiantly beautiful and wise, "He was aware of a sense of change pervading everything, although it wasn't a thing he could touch or locate. He couldn't say how or when it had happened, but the old simple surety seemed to be gone. The church of his fathers was empty. There was something beyond him, some force that he was only blindly aware of working steathily and bringing a right-about-face. His own children were...
...farm, driven their car for five days and six nights to be there. Pitcher Dizzy Dean's brother, Pitcher Paul ("Daffy") Dean, allowed 14 Detroit batsmen to get on base, but only one of them scored. When St. Louis had won. 4-to-1, he described the game: "I couldn't get my curve ball breaking properly. We'll go right through them...
...station platform with a Negro woman. George Akerson, Hoover's aide-de-camp, had a hard time refuting this canard without offending either white or black voters. "It was just like asking old High-Collar Herbert if he had quit beating his wife." chuckled Statesman Bilbo. "He couldn't say yes and he couldn...
Generous to the point of extravagance, the show offers four worthwhile lady entertainers: 1) saturnine Luella Gear, complaining that she has tried all the advertised luxuries of life but still "I Couldn't Hold My Man"; 2) lean Frances Williams who sings "Fun To Be Fooled" with bright authority; 3) a pert little body from the night clubs named Dixie Dunbar who kicks and chortles cutely; 4) Esther Junger, a concert dancer, bringing Carnegie Hall technique to frivolous Broadway...
Grip, the Rat is a story packed with words pronounced differently in different localities. It begins: "Once there [thar, theah] was a young rat [ret, rate] who couldn't make [mek, mack] up his mind. Whenever the other [udder, othah] rats asked [eskt, ast] him if he would like [lake, lack] to come out [oat, aout] with them [dem], he would answer [enser, ahnser], 'I don't know [ah doan-no, I dunno],' and when they said, 'Would you [wouldja] like to stop [stawp] at home [hum, hown]?' he wouldn...