Word: couldn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glad that she was so popular, but just a bit jealous. After all, stags don't pay a full price, and why should they cut in on someone else's expenditures. He glanced back, and realized that she did dance divinely, and looked a bit more beautiful tonight . . . it couldn't be just clothes. There was Freddie. Freddie had made the punch, and had been under the necessity of tasting it. Perhaps it would be better to avoid Freddie...
...something. As he passed down the steps onto Plympton Street he turned to look again upon the field of his victory. The pale light of early morning was just starting to spread the lemon fingers of disillusion over the field he had just quit. Several of his friends who "couldn't take it" were distributed severally in little heaps about the building, mute testimony to spirits that had passed away...
...pull out of this business and put our equipment in private hands with the assurance that railroads shall not again strangle waterways transportation to death. . . . The fight against me seems to be made by men who don't know West Point teaches honor, duty, country. If I couldn't laugh at these attacks, I guess I'd commit suicide...
...whim. Prisoners George Parker, Elijah Thompson, John Leddy, Charles High, John Walling were absent. (Later the night keeper found Parker who "when we counted them in the cells, was in the kitchen. When we counted them in the kitchen, Parker was in his cell. So of course we couldn't count him. He heard we were looking for him, so he introduced himself.") Present were Charles Willis and John Long whose records Warden Schwark could find nowhere. They insisted they had a perfect right to stay in jail. Said Isaac Woolley, old Republican warden. "That new crowd up there...
...took in about $50.000 a year. Famed forecasts: death of England's King Edward VII ("The stars would be grievously afflicted"), death of Tammany Leader Charles Francis Murphy of acute indigestion ("Unfriendly stomach"). Col. Theodore Roosevelt's defeat by Alfred Emanuel Smith for 1920 New York Governor ("He couldn't be elected to the school board in his native village of Oyster Bay"). Love and money were Evangeline Adams's chief astrological problems; love chiefly before January 1930, money after January 1930. Her specialty: finance...