Word: doesn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regret at being obliged to leave his Minneapolis home for Washington. He has grown fond of the Minnikahda Golf Club*; where he has often swung along the course at a business-like clip, as likely as not telling jokes about his Scotch ancestors. "The only thing my Scotch blood doesn't make me close about is my golf score. I'm not at all stingy about that. If I shoot 100, I feel I'm playing an excellent game for me. I love golf." He likes duck shooting too but has no time...
...jovially addressed an official gathering, thus: "It is a delight for me to come down from my 'rawnch,' but perhaps I should say ranch." "I am told," continued "Edward, Prince," "that there is a difference between a rawnch and a ranch. A ranch pays, and a rawnch doesn't, but I am not going to give away which my place is." The Canadian tour of Prime Minister & Mrs. Stanley Baldwin diverged from that of the Princes last week as scheduled, and the Baldwin party spent a few days at Banff, superb Alberta sports centre now being developed...
...Today the Navy lives princpally on hot air, manufactured ar spread by their Washington lobby -ONETIME COL. WILLIAM MITCHEL "What's the use of getting into an argument with a man who, on the face of it, doesn't know what he is talking about, and, if he did, couldn't tell the truth about it?" -ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE NAVY THEODORE DOUGLAS ROBINSON. This exchange of acrimonious accusations last week marked the return to the public ear of onetime Col. William Mitchell, deposed assistant chief of the Army Air Service (TIME...
...waste valuable space in your columns publishing such vapid letters as that of Charles A. Boston [TIME, June 6], who wishes to create the impression that he is so busy that he cannot stop occasionally to read something that will keep him abreast of the times. That doesn't interest your readers. He must have been the man, a friend of whom wanted to give him a book for a birthday gift, hearing of which another friend said: No, don't give him a book...
...golf course of their own and leave them there forever with their high heels on the greens and chattering on the tees. More power to Chicago! The thing should be carried further too. I'm for special women's elevators in office buildings, so a man doesn't get his lungs full of sickening face powder. Seriously I am! And what a blessing it would be if there were roads ' "for women only!" Put all the old hens and nice young things and horn-rimmed stickle-backs and back-seat drivers off on a boulevard...