Word: guess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...published a letter, "Babies and Dogs." I am a boy 10 years old. I had a beautiful setter that was a constant guard, companion and friend until I was 8. Then she died. I now have a nice police dog, one of the seven million dogs mentioned, I guess. I have a little friend who has what Dad says is just "a mangy cur,'' another of the seven millions, but Bobby loves him just as much as I love my police dog, and it would be fun to see someone try to kidnap Bobby...
...equipment in private hands with the assurance that railroads shall not again strangle waterways transportation to death. . . . The fight against me seems to be made by men who don't know West Point teaches honor, duty, country. If I couldn't laugh at these attacks, I guess I'd commit suicide...
...space to you, young feller, because we consider you and your generation extremely important. We don't want you to lose your spirit. And we want you to know that we think you are great for apologizing like the man that you are. And, after all, we guess we'll tell your name--Don De Nyse. --Boston Traveller...
...misrepresented me and misquoted himself... he did what he said ought not to be done.... He has enlisted the services of the captains of industry in spreading a campaign of coercion against workers in attempting to persuade them to vote the Republican ticket... They have tried to govern by guess and gamble... The President has lost his dignity and has indulged in personalities...
...constitute not only a marvelous tribute to him but approval of his policies. . . . "Millions have hoped that a political change would better their economic condition. This vote has outnumbered the votes of those who did understand." Republican Trubee Davison, defeated for Lieutenant Governor of New York: "Well, I guess that's over the dam." In Chicago, Socialist Norman Thomas with no electoral votes but a popular vote expected to total perhaps 2,000,000: "Governor Roosevelt may find the mass protest vote more of a boon in getting him elected than in helping to face the years that...