Word: couldn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time came when the little boy's friends grew tired of his kind of peanuts. And he was sorry because he couldn't get any more pin money and because a lot of peanuts were left over. So he scratched his head; and then he ran and asked the teacher to excuse him 'cause held eaten some of his peanuts and felt funny. And when he was gone, the teacher told all the little boy's friends that they mustn't buy any more of his peanuts because there was something bad in them...
...Presidency represented a physical triumph of the first order. For a decade he had fought a dogged fight to regain control over his paralyzed legs. Today the President-elect can walk in his braces, without crutch, stick or assisting arm, about 15 steps. Declares his wife: "If the paralysis couldn't kill him, I guess the Presidency won't." The Man of the Year's attitude toward his affliction is one of gallant unconcern. After his November election he went to Warm Springs where he addressed others there taking the cure: "We've shown that...
...life. The first people I fooled were my parents. When I grew up I fooled my wife when I married her. Now I have played a joke on 117,000 Utah voters. However, only about 2.000 of these knew whom they were voting for. There were some I couldn't fool, but that's all right, because they were being fooled by someone else [Reed Smoot...
...record Secretary Mills said of the proposed beer: "People who have tasted it tell me that you couldn't drink enough to get anything more than a bellyache. If that's right this bellywash won't raise as much money as my estimates...
...shoes of the same type. I've often wondered if it's the things they drink. My, what terrible stuff it is. Why, say, one of them came home one morning when I was in tidying up and he offered me a drink; he was that drunk. Well I couldn't refuse, and so, well, that stuff was worse than what Bert, he's my husband, what Bert brings home and you don't know what Bert, brings...