Word: guess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could get it, she often says, and even now she finds it impossible to break with the past. Her most treasured possession from the dear, dead days is her embalmer's license, which she faithfully renews every time it expires. When asked why, she replies wistfully, "Just sentiment, I guess...
...From Heaven'--why I've known Ring for so long, I've watched him grow. He's almost like one of my boys and he can swing too, though they never give him much of a chance. Armstrong almost blushed when complimented on his loss of weight. "Yeah I guess the Hollywood diet must have got me. Why, when I was in Boston a year ago I had a brown suit that was tight like a drum. But I don't seem to be able to do much about my weight. It goes up and down, just like an accordian...
Because he saw a bright future for rail traffic in the "golden triangle" of his part of the Southwest, Railman Couch last week purchased working control of Kansas City Southern Ry. from Paine, Webber & Co. The Manhattan brokers would reveal no details of the deal, but a good guess was that Senator Joe Robinson's good friend Harvey Couch and his associates paid up to $2,250,000 for the stock once held by the Brothers Van Sweringen...
Just as we thought. No camelias lured Robert Taylor to Garbo's side. You can guess what lured him as well as we. For camelais have no smell...
...Widow Esther C. B. Busby filed objections to the accounting, sought removal of the bank as executor and payment to her of surcharges equal to losses sustained during the bank's stewardship. She lost her suit after hearing her friend "Mel" Traylor admit he had made a bad guess by not liquidating the estate to get it out of a dangerous speculative position in a falling market (TIME, Nov. 20, 1933). Widow Busby went to the Cook County Circuit Court, but lost again. Still unimpressed, she appealed to the State Appellate Court...