Word: couldn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Might Sirs: ... I drag it around under my arm all week long, reading it in the train, at the luncheon table, in the stores waiting for change! . . . No, I couldn't do without TIME. In fact -if, press stories are true-a certain Mr. Morrison of Texas, now in London, might have done well to have followed TIME!* MRS. R. B. HANFORD...
...captured by C. A. Button, bank president, while he was escaping with a sack of silver. But C. A. Button was not the hero, said Robber Seifert. It was P. E. Federson. the cashier. "He outsmarted me when he put so much silver into the sack ... so heavy I couldn't run with...
...Again Picket Pinchot. waving her hat to encourage her followers, led a band round & round the plant. The walls did not fall but Morris Freezer appeared, invited Mrs. Pinchot inside to meet some of the girls still at work and "talk things over." Mrs. Pinchot hesitated, then decided: "I couldn't be on both sides at once." "Is it lady-like to picket?" one of the strikers asked the Governor's lady. "Well, it's a matter of noblesse oblige." observed Mrs. Pinchot. "You are obliged to do it out of consideration for the many others...
...found myself powerless," Irving Bush stormed to the Press. ". . . Mr. Stephens has shown an appalling misunderstanding of the business. He spent $30,000 to get some accountants. They didn't discover a thing I couldn't have told him for nothing...
...your duty,' Low said. 'Influenza is the topic of the day, and we shall be expected to deal with it, and how can we deal with it unless you have it?' I couldn't understand why I should have to have it all by myself. Why shouldn't he have it too, 'l said? But he explained that one would be enough and the one must be me because how else could I get my facts correct? He could draw pictures from looking at me. He said he thought I should look very funny...