Word: guess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Friends of Editor Lippmann said he had rejected an offer of $50,000-a-year from Hearst's New York American. A shrewd guess at what the Herald Tribune will pay him: between...
...guess it ain't very often that you get a letter from a Civil War veteran, is it? Well it wont get any oftener, not with the years flying by like they...
...increase revenues much. This city has been deriving about $35,000 a year from card games. Of course, it wasn't lawful to gamble for high stakes. We just assessed them so much a table for playing cards. We never asked them what kind of game they were playing. . . . Guess Nevada is about the only free State left. Seems funny, people will let a lot of long-haired reformers take their liberties away from them...
...sell 43 head of stock to the Brighton abattoir, he was reminded by his 97-year-old parent that "it's a durn good hotel." Accordingly he signed his name once more on the Brunswick's blotter and remarked casually to Desk Clerk Henry Nelson: "I guess you better take care of Bess out there...
...Scripps, we respectfully dedicate the first issue of the World-Telegram today." So wrote little Publisher Howard in further celebration of his purchase last week. It was fine as a gesture but all newspapermen recognized that the stature of the Immortals was unequal. And it was a fair guess that if Old Joe Pulitzer had had to choose a man to carry on his papers, sooner than to Edward Willys Scripps or his seed he would have turned to that kinetic little descendant of fighting Irishmen, Roy Wilson Howard...