Word: doesn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sincerely beg your pardon, ladies and gentlemen of the Browning Club; I have taken too long in expressing . . . May I quote from the editorial which launches--no, one doesn't launch a tree, does one . . . but this isn't a tree any more...
...will be because his prospects have faded and he is afraid to take the chance. In the last six weeks he has made his desire to stay evident in a hundred ways, and nowhere more plainly than in his conferences with the correspondents. He wants it but he doesn't want to fight for it-and he won't. . . . In the whole of his political career there is no record of a fight." After listing the usual assets which President Coolidge might have in a third term campaign, Mr. Kent expanded on the negative arguments: "Should...
...come around to the schoolyards at intermission time," said President Mrs. J. G. Skinner, "and get the children to gamble away their lunch money. That, and the punchboards, are making thieves of children. They take money that doesn't belong to them from their homes, and I know cases in which children have taken punches on their mothers' bills. My telephone is busy all day and half the night with mothers and other persons who want something done...
...Well, it is a book, and there is a lot of it, but it is very plain that the author doesn't know what he is talking about. It is full of slurs and snarls based on the internal consciousness of Rupert Hughes, and expressions of the way Hughes would have acted. "I found 297 statements in the book which are absolutely false; 111 which are extremely doubtful, and 165 paragraphs in which Hughes discusses a character which has never before been discovered as the evil genius behind Washington. That is Sally Fairfax. In fact, the book is written...
...land and never did a day's labor in his life. He had the best education and money was spent on him galore. If he and his wife want to go in for labor why don't they do a bit of work themselves or why doesn't Lady Cynthia sell her pearls for the Smethwick poor...