Word: guess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Teacher Sutton: "Well, if your father has such a notion I guess I had better talk to him. I rather hate to though, for he must be an unreasonable sort...
...Baldwin's most notable previous lottery coup (TIME, Jan. 21, 1929): for sixpence she bought the right to guess the names of a boy and a girl doll: guessed "Stanley" and "Lucy" (her husband's name and her own), won the dolls which had been thus named by the apple-cheeked girl in the booth. "I knew you d guess them!" cried she. "We named them 'specially in hopes you would...
...Albans," said he meaningly, "but our girls-bless their sweet hearts-are all good girls! Not a one in the whole town would show herself in tights and false hair. So's not to disappoint anyone I just named this little dog 'Lady Godiva,' and I guess you'll admit she rode the way God made her, except I scrubbed her first...
...Laird biplane from Roosevelt Field to Poughkeepsie, N. Y., there overshot the field, cracked up. He climbed into another Laird, reached Roosevelt Field 2 hr. after his first takeoff, struck a soft patch of ground, cracked up. Said Capt. Becker, emerging still unhurt from the second wreck: "Well, I guess that's a record...
...other cities word was flashed to be on the lookout for underworld arrivals. But the week ran out with no progress reported, the killer still at large. From the very nature of Reporter Lingle's work, his wide knowledge of underworld activities, it was difficult to guess who might have avenged a grudge by a gunshot. Lingle had a room in the Hotel Stevens where he lived regularly. Occasionally he spent a night with his family in the suburbs. To the hotel room had gone many and many a caller in recent weeks-impossible to single out one character...