Word: guess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reflect the quality of these teachers that are being turned out, nor the type of position that constitutes nearly a fourth of those 742,172 teaching positions in the U. S." Nearly a fourth of all the positions are in one-teacher schools, and "it would be hazardous to guess" how many one-teacher school jobs are accurately described by the following hypothetical advertisement...
...Brennan, Democratic boss of Cook County (in which Chicago is situated), announced last week that he would be a candidate for U. S. Senator from Illinois on a wet platform. Mr. Brennan is a follower in the national arena of Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York. Quidnunes guess that Mr. Brennan hopes to capture a seat in the Senate while the local Republicans are falling out with one another over the World Court...
...want to know how many thousand words it took--but, well, never mind. Guess a hundred, double it, multiply that by two, add an odd fifty for good measure and you'll be pretty near it. Oh yes, Dreiser wrote almost half a million. If anybody else and done it--but, of course, nobody would have--but if anybody else had, the publishers would have said, yawning. "Well, cut that in half, throw away half of that, re-write the remainder four times, looking sharply for split infinitives and dangling participles, and then perhaps, perhaps we shall take a chance...
...visited the Splendid Georgian on my return from the Idlers' mid-winter or early spring or whatsoever production--and they came from Radcliffe. I know because they had escorts and ate very little. The usual female occupant at the evening tables at the Georgian eats very much. "Say, I guess I'll have a chicken salad sanwidge--Yeah, coffee."' No, you can't fill the poor working girl. Yes, I was surprised to see so many young college women in the place--and was quite delighted. A study in contrasts--or are they--is always amusing. Especially when...
...victor's sister Florence, aged 16, and young brother Sylvan, were prevailed upon by the photographer of a Manhattan gum-chewers' sheetlet, to pose, in bellicose attitude, Florence wearing boxing gloves. Young Silverman's father said: "Somebody had to lick the President's son, I guess. I'm pleased to have the honor to be the father of the boy who did it,, but other boys in the United States could do the same." A promoter in Manhattan offered young Silverman $5,000 for three matches in Manhattan. Two days later, one William Hughes of Waterbury, Conn., drubbed Silverman...