Word: doubtful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress and read while Archie and Ted played, argued with the whole White House staff. Father interrupted his studies at Harvard by taking him along as official photographer on the African game hunt in 1909. Out of college, he sailed away with Father to explore the "River of Doubt" in South America...
...long jumps on one nighters, the nervous tension that all musicians live under. He shows how the music business is rotten with commercialism. Booking offices, agents, song pluggers, and the big broadcasting chains all come in for their share of panning. I don't think that there is much doubt that Shaw is absolutely right in what he says about all of this. His only trouble on these points is that he didn't make them strong enough. So far so good. But Shaw goes on to say that it is these things that are making him leave the business...
...doubt if this is correct. I have never heard it so named. It is generally referred to as "thrippence" or "thrippenny bit" and in somewhat vulgar circles as a "tizzy...
...Right Hon. E. A. Lapointe might be Prime Minister of Canada "if he were British." As a Canadian, and therefore a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations, Mr. Lapointe would be the first to tell you that he was British. The people of English-speaking Canada do not doubt that he is British-in that sense. The fact that he has a French name, is of French race, and speaks the French language as his mother tongue, are not barriers in Canada...
...nominate the Mayor of Warsaw for your Man of the Year, even if the award must be made posthumously. His radio appeals rank second only to Colonel Travis' letters from the Alamo in 1836, and his fate, no doubt, will be the same...