Word: couldn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nobody seemed more pleased at this strange outcome than Father Schreckengost. Said he: "Many a night I couldn't sleep thinking about that poor child crying because of the shape she was in. I tell you, it's a pitiful thing. She's never had any pleasure out of life...
...rumors, London newshawks scurried to his home, heard him shyly explain : "As soon as I entered, the manager came up and asked me whether I was a Jew. My appearance is hardly 'Aryan.' I confirmed the fact that I was a Jew and he replied he was sorry he couldn't serve me and that I must leave. It does sound rather like Nazi Germany, doesn...
...come to you, very humbly, to enter this tremendous task. ... If I am elected your Governor there is not one person on the ticket I wouldn't cooperate with, not one person I couldn't go to and seek their advice. . . . And so, friends, I want you to know I know my limitations, and if our ticket goes over and if I should be your Governor I would carry out these policies of Bill's which were so soundly endorsed at the primary election. I shall try to do the most good for the most of the people...
...dream 40 years ago when, as a farm boy, I came here from Wisconsin and with my first yoke of oxen broke up this prairie, that such a day as this would come. . . . For 38 years I paid my taxes on time, then, three years ago, I couldn't meet my taxes. A man's first duty is to his family. I have nine children. I don't blame you for seeking help...
Whatever the outcome, "it's been wonderful for me," sighed Mrs. Wood, contemplating the everlasting antics of her twins. "My next oldest child was only 3 when they were born. I couldn't wait in the morning until the nurse would call for them. . . .Johnny! Get off the table! . . . Jimmy! Shame on you! Come to the bathroom...