Word: couldn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stockroom shelves, he turns it over in his plump hands, says: "Tick [thick], 18?." If it is thin, he says: "Tin, 8?." Some sixth sense supplies him with his shrewd literary judgments. Of one unfortunate author he is supposed to have said: "Dat guy? Dat guy? He couldn't even write a good remainder...
Germany went to town Germany sat down Germany is afraid of a flea Germany couldn't lick...
...train and loved it. She loved the rough-&-tumble arguments she got into, the job of talking down the mayor and the local minister and the village trustees until they let her speak. In one town she always got a contribution from a rich old woman who said she couldn't see any sense in the suffragette movement but gave money to it because it was such a good show. That was why Dorothy Thompson liked it. And she was part of the show...
...bought carriage after carriage for him . . . but . . . he just couldn't sit up. [Father Greenfield demonstrated how the child's head flopped to & fro on its neck.] I bought babies' toys for him but when I held them out he couldn't grasp them. He lay there like a-like a lump of pudding." Jerry grew large rapidly, too rapidly. He never learned to walk alone, could only lurch, spin and sprawl. Almost nothing coordinated. He had to be helped with the simplest functions. When he was put in institutions, he pined for his family...
Although MGM has finally severed the Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy due, owing to the "Sweetheart" fiasco, they just couldn't keep them completely apart. The lovers are now sharing the double bill at Loew's State and Orpheum with a change in soul-mates...