Word: couldn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago, the musical world was already swooning in the aisles over the fire-and-ice perfection of Arturo Toscanini's interpretations. Since then the little white-haired Maestro has become the darling of millions who couldn't tell a fugue from a flugelhorn. Today, as chief of NBC's shiny new symphony, 72-year-old Arturo Toscanini is far & away the biggest lion in the U. S. musical...
Fire commander: "I myself couldn't see the ship." He explained that the battery was to defend the harbor, not to warn ships about mine fields...
William Henry Seward, Lincoln's cigar-chewing Secretary of State, was capable of trying to run the President and also capable of realizing he couldn't. Seward had tried to stave off war. "Night and day he had conferred and negotiated, become weary and rusty, vulgar and profane beyond his old habits, worn and frazzled as a castoff garment." He had a theory that war between the States could be stopped by getting a war started with some foreign power (Lincoln's observation on this later was "One war at a time"). On April 1 he sent...
...story by giving out a statement to the effect that he was sick and tired of the band business and was going to leave it of his own accord; that his income for the next year would have been around a quarter of a million dollars, but that he couldn't be bothered with such material things; and that therefore he was leaving for good. At this moment Shaw is somewhere in Texas with general destination Mexico...
...tune of our goals and four touchdowns to nothing may be partially explained by the rules difficulties. Football as it was played at Cambridge and football as it was played at New Haven were as unlike as marbles and ping-pong. For years the Yales and the Harvards couldn't get together...