Word: guess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...served thirty-two cases of champagne (not quite all to me) and I woke up at four-thirty in the morning still dancing with the hostess. But I was an usher that time, and someone had to start her off. The other boys figured I could stand it, I guess, and I guess I could in the good old days. I am therefore sympathetically, Your UNCLE SMUGLY...
...felt hat with tees stuck in the hatband. Mrs. Page was 3 up at the end of 18 holes. Imperturbable, one-putting on green after green. Mrs. Page was 7 up at the end of 27 holes, ended the match three holes later. "It was just my day, I guess," she said...
...average American, asked who John Jay Chapman was, might emerge from a mental merry-go-round of Roy Chapman Andrews, John Hay, Gerald Chapman and John Hays Hammond with the guess that he was anything from a diplomat to a gunman; his times anything from the early eighteen hundreds to the present day. Fact is, he was a law-trained, wealthy politicaster, Manhattan-born, Harvard-bred and of old New England stock, who never held public office but was rampant in all the reform movements around the century's turn; who wrote widely and voluminously on subjects ranging from...
...Manrodt before Hu F. Huey guess right, but alsamee he say Harvard's day 33-0. One easy guess, anyway: Yanks 8, Giants...
...Frontiers of the Mind,* which is the October choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club. For the most part it covers the story as narrated in his previous writings, with some addition of philosophical and anecdotal material. The author tells, for example, how he spurred a subject to guess every card right in the pack of 25 by betting him $100 on each card. He also confesses that...