Word: daresay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feeling one was a prisoner, but now we are getting 48 hours on duty and 24 hours off which has very much changed the situation. The bulk of the girls are youngsters; of course I get fearfully tired of spending hours with the very young but I daresay they feel just the same about the aged. [N.B.-The writer is over 40.] I enjoyed my first leave tremendously and went into the country to see Mother. Lots of our friends are drifting back to town through sheer boredom. I fancy I shall be mentally deficient when the war does...
...chance may it be a luck one!" she says, "I learned your address. When you were studying at the Vienna University two years ago you surely had occasion to get acquainted with Viennese people and to esteem them. May I therefore with regard to those, I daresay, happy and pleasing days utter a certainly very immodest request which nevertheless might be fulfilled...
...authors, he gave his ego a field day last week by publishing a grotesque 595-page autobiography. Whether or not the mirror he holds up to himself is distorted, most readers will agree that the image it reflects is a little cracked. Author Powys admits: "I know, and I daresay my reader will willingly bear me out in this, that I am - all the while - never wholly sane." He has tried to report his life as if he were confessing to "a priest, a philosopher, and a wise old woman." Readers who are not in those categories will be sometimes...
...think anything will be done about it, at least not until summer dawns at the pole. At present, the expedition is enjoying its six months winter in total darkness, and I daresay none of the men would risk their lives to replace the convenient bridge...
This remark came early in an address entitled "Can We Rehabilitate the Criminal," Bates, a solidly built, quick-witted, unaffected speaker, began his remarks in this vein: "I daresay there is considerable difference of opinion here on this subject. Furthermore, I am a bit hesitant about talking penology before such a gathering as this--between the Gloomy Gluecks on the one side and the Guiltless Gill on the other. (Loud and prolonged clapping) If I had said guilty, (aside to Gill) I suppose there wouldn't have been any applause...