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Word: couldn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eddie Marsh worshipped his pious, bookish, tone-deaf mother (she "couldn't tell God Save the Weasel from Pop Goes the Queen"). She weaned Author Marsh on Hamlet's soliloquy, and he started her reading such moderns as Zola. She taught him to sew, too, and later, Sir Warrington Smyth, a schoolfellow, and "a powerful influence for good, fired me to knit mittens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Puckish Proust | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...ever had was when he criticized Constance Bennett for her noisy behavior at first nights in a column entitled "The Constance Sinner." Actress Bennett invited him to take her to an opening and see if she could not be a lady. Replied Skolsky: "I'm afraid I couldn't be a gentleman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mouse's Return | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...Axis arrangement (Djibouti, Tunisia, Suez). And an honest reflection of the Anglo-French determination was at last made public. If all this added up to anything, it meant clearing the road for B. Mussolini to slow A. Hitler down-if he could-perhaps to hang back if he couldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Poor and Reluctant | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...need any cooperation. Ours will be the greatest fair ever built. We do not recognize the San Francisco Fair. It is not an international exposition. You couldn't have had a fair without Federal money. We don't want it or need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Regilded Gate | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...Filipino, "of 60 Filipino soldiers being made to cower and shrink by one Juramentado [a Moro fanatic who expects heavenly reward in proportion to the number of Christians he kills] appears to some of us to thoroughly disparage the character of Filipino soldiers as a whole. . . . That this couldn't have happened, no matter how untrained they were, is the belief of many extras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Goldwyn's Filipinos | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

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