Word: doesn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weeks ago, after watching her, I promised to show her some new strokes. Mrs. Coolidge doesn't know she is taking lessons, but I am really teaching her the Australian crawl, a movement in which the hands paddle and the feet kick...
...bill, recently debated in the Lords (TIME, June 22), to prevent cruelty to animals, came up for discussion. Brigadier General Cockerill (Conservative), in defending the flea, indignantly observed that that maxim De minimis non curat Iex meant that "The flea doesn't worry the Home Secretary." Although the flea was not an animal or a reptile, he thought fleas should be included in the bill...
Your articles and the style of presentation are both excellent, I think, but I am wondering about the correctness of "Yangtszekiang River" several times used in TIME, June 22, Page 13, CHINA. Doesn't Kiang mean river? If not, the dictionaries seem to be wrong...
Much can be done, if only it doesn't rain. There's the Pekin Government to overthrow as usual. True, no one knows exactly why the government ought to be overthrown. It hasn't passed a prohibition law, or denied that all men are born free and equal, or declared for municipal ownership of laundries. But why be pedantic about such matters? It's the principle of the thing that counts--principle and force of habit. In June every Chinaman just naturally marches on Pekin...
...real sport. Carpenter Hay didn't hang the open door right. This famous portal swings only one way--in, always in. It's high time, says almond-eyed Chu-Chin-Chow, to declare a Monroe Doctrine for China, including "exploitation" along with "colonization" in the text. Perhaps he doesn't like having his affairs regulated by strange, jabbering merchants and ship's cooks. And who shall say him nay? After all, the "heathen Chinee" may be human--who knows?--just like all the other heathen...