Word: couldn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acting on the whole is so bad as to defy description. An obscure man whose name, if it is remembered correctly, is Anthony something or other steals whatever there is of the show. It is a pity he couldn't have kept it better hidden...
...German press shouted a warning across the sea: AMERICA FACING DANGEROUS CURRENCY EXPERIMENTS. Berlin bankers said they "couldn't believe...
...very much the same as it is today, and so, unfortunately, was the East End. There was the gradual acquaintance with one of the good families who lived on coupons and the wealth of sea faring ancestors--very much in their time like paint manufacturers in 1875. But it couldn't be done. There were heartbreaks and failures, there were blunders and embarrassments, there were snobbery and humiliations. The paint man couldn't understand, he never understood, why his daughters, the one so pretty the other so clever, could not be accepted by the great granddaughters of sea faring...
...shotgun shells in a sport store, asked to see some shotguns. The clerk showed him one and then went down to the basement. Charles Smith put a shell in the gun, blew his own head off. A note in his pocket said: "Thanks a lot for the gun. I couldn't afford...
...cold," said Lennart, a sober young man in tortoise-shell glasses. "She couldn't come." Not wedding bells but a civil marriage at a London registry office was planned by Lennart and Karin before the arrival of the exuberant Marie...